A day ahead of Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s meeting with a section of senior leaders, the Congress on Friday said Rahul Gandhi was the “right person” to lead the party, reported PTI.

According to reports the Sonia Gandhi will meet leaders who had written to her in August demanding an overhaul of the organisation. 

Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the party stood united and together as a family and there are no dissensions pending after the announcement of elections to the party chief’s post.

According to the PTI report, Gandhi will meet Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, the party’s deputy leader in the upper house Anand Sharma, former chief ministers Bhupinder Hooda and Prithviraj Chavan, Manish Tewari, Vivek Tankha and Shashi Tharoor.

Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath and senior leader P Chidambaram will also be part of the meeting, the sources added.

Rahul Gandhi is also set to attend the meeting, the sources confirmed.

Surjewala, however, said all issues raised by the “letter writers” stood resolved after Sonia Gandhi announced elections for the Congress president.

Trying to downplay the meet, the Congress spokesperson said it is not a meet of any special group of leaders and Congress workers will choose a person best suited for the post.

“It is my belief and the belief of overwhelming majority of 99.9% leaders and workers that Rahul Gandhi is the right person to lead the party and to take on the Modi government,” Surjewala said.

Starting Saturday and over a period of the next fortnight, Sonia Gandhi is going to meet and decide on various organisational issues besides those like winter session of Parliament not held, the farmers agitation and finalising alliances in key states, he said.