The Congress Core Group meeting is likely to formulate a strategy to deal with the situation as Parliament resumes tomorrow.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and other senior party leaders met here today in the backdrop of the stalemate over opposition's demand for JPC probe into the second-generation mobile telephony spectrum issue that has paralysed Parliament for two weeks.
The Congress Core Group meeting is likely to formulate a strategy to deal with the situation as Parliament resumes tomorrow.
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, home minister P Chidambaram and defence minister AK Antony were among those who attended the high-level meeting.
The meeting takes place on a day opposition BJP, which has launched an offensive against Congress on the issue of corruption, is likely to take a call on Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddurappa who is under pressure to step down following the controversy over out of turn land allotment to his sons.
The Congress is also flustered over the developments in Andhra Pradesh where a TV channel owned by party MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy launched an attack on Sonia Gandhi yesterday. The central leadership today sought a report from the state unit on the issue.
Sakshi, the 24-hour Telugu news channel owned by the Kadapa MP and son of late chief minister YSR Reddy, had launched a frontal attack on Gandhi as well as the organisation in a one-hour programme.
The channel, however, took a U-turn today and recast the programme.
The special story on Friday had said that the grand old party was on a "rapid degeneration" across the country and even Sonia herself was facing rough weather in her Rae Bareily constituency.
The prime minister was also targeted along with the so called "coterie around Sonia" for the "sorry state of affairs in Congress."
The bold headlines that criticised Sonia as well as the prime minister were, however, dropped in today's telecast and contents attacking Gandhi and Singh were also removed.
Sakshi CEO Priyadarshini Ram said the story was not against Gandhi or Singh and maintained that that there was no intervention by Jagamnohan with regard to the content of the TV channel.
Congress leaders from the state have reacted sharply to the issue. A senior party leader from the state K Keshava Rao said that there was a "design" behind the telecast and Jaganmohan has gone too far and something needs to be done".
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