<p>Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, who had gone abroad for a ''routine check up''on Februrary 27 following a surgery six months back, returned here today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Gandhi returned a day before the counting of votes in the elections to five states including crucial Uttar Pradesh. She had extensively campaigned in UP, Punjab and Uttarakhand.<br />"Congress President Sonia Gandhi has come back after her routine check up and she is absolutely fine," party general secretary and media department chief Janardan Dwivedi told PTI.<br /><br />Nearly six months after her treatment abroad, Gandhi had travelled out of the country on the night of February 27 for the check up.<br /><br />A day after Gandhi left, Dwivedi had said that the Congress President had gone abroad for check up and would return in four to five days.<br /><br />Gandhi, 65, had gone out of the country for treatment of an undisclosed ailment in August last year. During her over month-long stay, she had undergone surgery, whose nature was not disclosed with the party maintaining that a citizen's right to privacy should be respected.<br /><br />In her absence then, Gandhi's son, Rahul and three senior leaders were made in-charge of party affairs. Besides Rahul, the committee had comprised Defence Minister A K Antony, Janardan Dwivedi and Sonia Gandhi's political secretary Ahmed Patel.<br /><br />This time, however, no such arrangement was made as the period of her stay out of the country was short.</p>
<p>Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, who had gone abroad for a ''routine check up''on Februrary 27 following a surgery six months back, returned here today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Gandhi returned a day before the counting of votes in the elections to five states including crucial Uttar Pradesh. She had extensively campaigned in UP, Punjab and Uttarakhand.<br />"Congress President Sonia Gandhi has come back after her routine check up and she is absolutely fine," party general secretary and media department chief Janardan Dwivedi told PTI.<br /><br />Nearly six months after her treatment abroad, Gandhi had travelled out of the country on the night of February 27 for the check up.<br /><br />A day after Gandhi left, Dwivedi had said that the Congress President had gone abroad for check up and would return in four to five days.<br /><br />Gandhi, 65, had gone out of the country for treatment of an undisclosed ailment in August last year. During her over month-long stay, she had undergone surgery, whose nature was not disclosed with the party maintaining that a citizen's right to privacy should be respected.<br /><br />In her absence then, Gandhi's son, Rahul and three senior leaders were made in-charge of party affairs. Besides Rahul, the committee had comprised Defence Minister A K Antony, Janardan Dwivedi and Sonia Gandhi's political secretary Ahmed Patel.<br /><br />This time, however, no such arrangement was made as the period of her stay out of the country was short.</p>
