The resignations came after some senior Telangana Congress leaders alleged that leaders who came from other parties were given priority in appointments to PCC committees.
Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday held a meeting with Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot presumably attempting reconciliation between the two senior Congress leaders. Answering questions from reporters while coming out of the meeting, Rahul said that good news would come soon.
Meanwhile, the BJP has hit out against the Opposition protests. "There must be ideological differences but Savarkar is a freedom fighter, then ask Siddaramaiah, whose poster must be put, of Dawood Ibrahim?," Union Minister Pralhad Joshi said today in Delhi outside the Parliament.
Former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje on Friday took pot shots at the Congress' ongoing Bharat Joddo Yatra, saying Rahul Gandhi should try to unite his party first.
Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President K Sudhakaran asserted that party MP Shashi Tharoor has always been an asset to the Congress and no one can single him out.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, Congress Himachal Pradesh in-charge Rajeev Shukla and some other Congress leaders were also present during the courtesy meeting.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister-designate Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, along with other senior Congress leaders on Saturday arrived at Raj Bhawan to meet Governor RV Arlekar and stake claim to form the government in the state.
As the Congress high command is set to decide the next chief minister of Himachal Pradesh after emerging victorious in Assembly elections, former party chief Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, CPL leader Mukesh Agnihotri and party leader Rajinder Rana are considered to be in the race, said sources o
Significantly, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) MP Hanuman Beniwal, who demanded a probe by either the CBI or an SIT in the case, claiming the involvement of some Congress leaders, was also among the protesters along with Mukesh Bhakar, a Congress MLA from the Sachin Pilot camp and BJP MP Swami Sumed
Taking a dig at the Congress at the meeting, senior BJP leader and outgoing Himachal Chief Minister Jairam Thakur said, "Every Congress leader fought the Assembly elections as a probable CM candidate and their defeat is inevitable."