The Gandhis received fresh endorsement from the Congress today after a seven-hour meeting that began with Sonia Gandhi asking the party to start looking for her replacement after a letter written by a ginger group called for "a full-time, visible leadership". Sonia Gandhi will continue as party president, said the Congress, ending the online Working Committee (CWC) meet with the stern message that "no one will be permitted to undermine or weaken the party and its leadership at this juncture". Sonia Gandhi reportedly said in her closing remarks that she held "no ill-will" towards the letter writers. "I am hurt but they are my colleagues, bygones are bygones, let us work together," she reportedly said.