It insisted that the party was in a "very comfortable position" with a youthful Vice President and a mature and experienced Sonia Gandhi as President. "It is a confluence of youthfulness and maturity."
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad also dismissed suggestions that such an arrangement would lead to two power centres in the organisation.
Briefing reporters after a Congress Working Committee meeting, which decided for extending the tenure of Sonia Gandhi as party president for up to one year, Azad said it is a "division of work", which will strengthen the organisation.
He insisted that it was an "ideal situation" as the two leaders were working in a cordial atmosphere.
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"We are very confident. What else could be better that both a youthful leader and a mature and experienced leader available to us," he said.
Asked about the efficacy of two power centres in one party, Azad said, "you are wrong. There are no two power centres. We are like one unit. It is not NDA, where one person takes all the decisions."