Sitaram Kesri was reportedly locked up in the bathroom at Congress headquarters in Akbar Road so he could not stop Sonia from entering the office with her supporters to take over as party president.
Jaydeep Kavade, the son of the local MLA of People's Republican Party, a strong ally of the Congress (I) and the Nationalist Congress Party, got to the podium and used filthy language to insult Union Minister Smriti Irani