New Delhi: The storm in Congress is not stopping for the time being. Even after the CWC meeting, Congress President Sonia Gandhi is going to remain the interim president of the party. Also, the next president is going to be elected in 6 months. However, the Gandhi Nehru family has been occupying the post of party president for a long time. Family members were in this position for almost 40 years. Among them, for the longest time, Sonia Gandhi has held the position of president of the party. She has been in the role of Congress President for almost 20 years.

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Congress has seen 18 presidents since Independence. Of these, 5 belonged to the Gandhi family only, the remaining 13 were not members of the Gandhi family. However, in reality, the power and organization was in the hands of the Gandhi family and still exists. The 5 presidents of Congress coming from the Gandhi family have held this position for nearly 40 years. From 1998 onwards, the presidency of the Congress had been with the Gandhi family continuously.

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The situation was similar to the party in 1998-1999, as was the situation with regard to the post of Congress president. Ever since the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, many Congress leaders wanted to bring Sonia Gandhi into active politics, though she avoided it for years and in 1997 she was a primary member of the party in Kolkata. Narasimha Rao and Sitaram Kesari were elected to the post of Congress President only after Rajiv's death. However, they also had to face opposition in the party. In the midterm elections of 1998, they made Kesri responsible for the party's weak preparations. Also, his decision-making style angered leaders like R Kumar Mangalam and Aslam Sher Khan, who left the Congress. On 14 March 1998, Gandhi was elected as the Congress President. The biggest challenge for him was to unite the party.

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