Cong top brass discuss Kashmir at CWC meeting

The Congress Working Committee met late Tuesday with top leaders deliberating on the party's strategy on Jammu and Kashmir going forward after the government revoked its special status and bifurcated the border state into two Union Territories.

The meeting, attended by Congress parliamentary party leader Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh, former home minister P Chidambaram, Priyanka Gandhi, among others, was held soon after the government secured Parliament's approval for its move on J&K.

The meeting of the Congress's top decision-making body comes after the party took a stand against the government action, while several Congress leaders such as Jyotiraditya Scindia and Janardan Dwivedi struck a divergent view and supported the Centre's action.

Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who earlier in the day stoked a controversy as he sought to know from the government whether Jammu and Kashmir was an internal matter or a bilateral issue, .