At the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meet on Monday, all eyes would be on party president Sonia Gandhi who is expected to set the tone for serious deliberations in the face of the Congress's worst ever electoral defeat.

The last time Sonia faced a challenge to her authority — on account of her foreign origin — she responded by putting in her papers as the Congress president. That was just before the 1999 Lok Sabha elections after Sharad Pawar, PA Sangma and Tariq Anwar challenged her projection as the party's prime ministerial candidate, ostensibly on the grounds of her foreign origin. She withdrew the resignation after the entire party rallied behind her. But this time it's more political than personal.

Though Sonia and her son Rahul Gandhi owned up the responsibility for the poll debacle, senior leaders believe the leadership has to steer the party out of the crisis.

A section within the party does not rule out offers of resignation by Sonia and Rahul. But others trash the idea, insisting that "it is not the way to go forward".



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