New Delhi: Sonia Gandhi was today (May 15, 2004) unanimously elected leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP).

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Her name was proposed by Pranab Mukherjee and seconded by Mahabir Prasad Yadav and several other newly-elected Congress MPs.

Among those who seconded her candidature were Kanti Lal Bhuria, Iqbal Ahmed Saradgi, PR Kyndih, Kamal Nath, Madhusudan Mistry and Janardhan Reddy.

Senior Congress leader Manmohan Singh announced that she was elected unanimously.