More on Sonia Gandhi's address to her party...

At the Congress Parliamentary Party session in New Delhi, which was also attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Gandhi commenting on the elections results in the five states including Uttar Pradesh, said, "While we can take satisfaction in the fact that we returned to power in Manipur for the third time and formed the government in Uttarakhand, the results in Punjab and Goa are very disappointing. 

"In Uttar Pradesh, even though we did not perform as well as we had hoped to, we increased our vote share quite considerably and were seen as a serious player for the first time in 22 years. Of course there is much work to be done there as in other states. I am proud of Rahul."

The CPP meeting has come a few days after a high-power committee of the party led A K Antony that reviewed the party's performance in the five states, submitted its report to Gandhi.  She said with a series of state elections approaching in the coming months, the partymen "must draw upon lessons of the previous polls."