"Get together, find new party chief" Sonia Gandhi to party leaders as she offers to resign: Reports
New Delhi: Interim Congress President, Sonia Gandhi has urged the party leaders to collectively find a new chief to the party, ahead of the CWC meeting on Monday. The response from Ms. Gandhi comes to a letter written by a group of senior party leaders who called from a complete overhaul of the organization, people close to the development said.
Sonia Gandhi has further asserted that she doesn’t want to carry out the responsibilities any further as the chief of the party.
Sonia Gandhi accepted the post of the interim chief after much persuasion only on one condition that the party will find her replacement soon.
The leaders made desperate pleas to her after Rahul Gandhi rejected their calls to withdraw his resignation that he had put in on May 25 in the wake of the party’s rout in the national elections.
For his part, Rahul Gandhi while resigning from the top post had told the CWC in its meeting on May 25 that the party should elect a non-Gandhi as its new president.
Sonia Gandhi is expected to offer her resignation during Monday’s CWC meeting.
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Rickelton's ton in vain as SRH beat MI by 6 wickets
Mumbai (PTI): Ryan Rickelton's whirlwind unbeaten ton was overshadowed by Heinrich Klaasen's unbeaten 65 as Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Mumbai Indians by six wickets in an IPL match here on Wednesday.
Chasing an imposing 244-run target, Travis Head (76 off 30) and Abhishek Sharma (45 off 24) shared 129 runs for the opening wicket to set the platform for SRH.
Klaasen (65 not out off 30 balls) then displayed his all-round hitting abilities to guide SRH home with the help of Nitish Kumar Reddy (21) and Salil Arora (30 not out off 10) in 18.4 overs.
Earlier, Rickelton's knock powered MI to 243 for five.
MI rode on a 93-run stand between Rickelton (123 not out off 55 balls) and Will Jacks (46 off 22) in 7.1 overs for the opening stand to power the side.
MI skipper Hardik Pandya scored a valuable 31 off 15 balls before being dismissed.
Praful Hinge (2/54), Eshan Malinga (1/29), Sakib Hasan (1/39) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (1/31) were the wicket-takers for SRH.
Brief Scores:
Mumbai Indian: 243 for 5 in 20 overs (Ryan Rickelton 123 not out; Praful Hinge 2/54).
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 249 for 4 in 18.4 overs (Travis Head 76, Heinrich Klaasen 65 not out; AM Ghazanfar 2/51).
