Sonia back to work

Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who had undergone a surgery in the US last month, was her usual self on Thursday, chairing a party meeting that discussed names of 98 candidates and finalized 70 for Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.The meeting of Central Election Committee, which she presided, was her first collective interaction with Congress leaders after she arrived in New Delhi last week from the US.Party general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said, "Gandhi participated in the meeting today happily and normally as she used to do earlier". Like in the past, Gandhi came out of her house to welcome Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and see him off after the 65-minute-long meeting. She discussed issues as she used to do earlier.