Pakistan, Sept. 13 -- Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, one of the signatories to the dissenters' letter, has said that Congress will continue to sit in the opposition for the next 50 years, if it did not conduct elections to the Congress Working Committee (CWC) and other key organizational posts within the party.

He pitched for organising elections to the various party posts while raising the fact that the party did not hold elections for the past several decades. "For the last many decades, we have no elected bodies in the party. Maybe we should have pushed for it 10-15 years ago. Now we are losing elections after elections, and if we have to come back, we need to strengthen our party by holding elections."

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