Sonia Gandhi back to the work

NEW DELHI: After surgery, a week have been passed Sonia Gandhi returned from abroad. Now the Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi will be back to active party work by presiding over a meeting of Congress’ central election committee.

Party general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi said that Gandhi will be participating in Thursday’s CEC meeting which is to finalise tickets for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections scheduled early next year.

According to sources at 10 Janpath, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had called on her to inquire about her health soon after she had returned here on September eight after a month-long stay abroad.

Gandhi has been actively looking after organisational work since her return and has made a series of appointments at various levels in different states, said the party leaders.

Gandhi had not been meeting people since her return. Though she heads the Congress core group, she did not attend its first meeting held last week which was attended by all other members including the Prime Minister.

This will be the first public appearance of the Congress president after she returned to Delhi from the US, where she had gone through surgery for an undisclosed illness.

(News Editor- Naushin Fatima Khan)