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Congress President Rahul Gandhi sits with his mother and former Congress president Sonia Gandhi at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting in New Delhi (Photo: PTI)

Archis Mohan New Delhi
There is uncertainty on whether Congress President Rahul Gandhi would also succeed his mother Sonia Gandhi (pictured) as the chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), particularly after key former and potential constituents, like the Trinamool Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), have indicated that their party chiefs 
have better credentials for the post.

On Tuesday, senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily said in Hyderabad that no decision has been taken on whether Sonia Gandhi would continue to occupy the position of UPA chairperson or make way for new party president. He said there were calls for her continuation in the

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