If you've just joined us, the Congress Core Group, headed by Sonia Gandhi and including the Prime Minister and senior Cabinet ministers, will meet
this evening to devise further strategy on the President's election.

Party general secretary and spokesperson Janardhan Dwivedi in the first official statement since the PM's name come up as presidential candidate said, that Sonia Gandhi was still in the process of consulting even single-member
parties and in the course of it, two names have come up. "If Congress had decided on the name, two names would not have come up," he said.

Slamming Mamata Banerjee for revealing Pranab Mukherjee and Hamid Ansari's names as the Congress candidates, he said, "There is a dignity to the process. When such talks are held, names are not discussed outside," the Congress leader said.