<p>Amid continued communal violence in parts of northeast Delhi that has claimed 17 lives, the Congress top leadership started deliberations on the issue at a meeting of its working committee on Wednesday.</p>.<p>Congress president Sonia Gandhi and top leaders like Manmohan Singh, A K Anthony, Ghulam Nabi Azad, P Chidambaram, Priyanka Gandhi were present during the meeting.</p>.<p>However, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was not present at the meeting as he is abroad, sources said.</p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/liveblog/citizenship-act-protest-live-bjp-govt-has-chosen-to-use-brute-force-to-suppress-dissent-says-sonia-gandhi-784798.html" target="_blank"><strong>Follow live updates of clashes among CAA protesters in Delhi here</strong></a></p>.<p>The party is likely to evolve a strategy on the continued violence in Delhi, following protests over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).</p>.<p>The Congress is against the CAA and has urged the government to keep it in abeyance or take it back as it is causing concern among a major section of the country's population, especially the Muslim community.</p>.<p>The death toll in the northeast Delhi communal violence over the amended citizenship law rose to 17 on Wednesday, according to GTB Hospital authorities.</p>.<p>Communal violence in northeast Delhi escalated on Tuesday as police struggled to check the rioters who ran amok on streets, burning and looting shops, pelting stones and thrashing people.</p>
<p>Amid continued communal violence in parts of northeast Delhi that has claimed 17 lives, the Congress top leadership started deliberations on the issue at a meeting of its working committee on Wednesday.</p>.<p>Congress president Sonia Gandhi and top leaders like Manmohan Singh, A K Anthony, Ghulam Nabi Azad, P Chidambaram, Priyanka Gandhi were present during the meeting.</p>.<p>However, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was not present at the meeting as he is abroad, sources said.</p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/liveblog/citizenship-act-protest-live-bjp-govt-has-chosen-to-use-brute-force-to-suppress-dissent-says-sonia-gandhi-784798.html" target="_blank"><strong>Follow live updates of clashes among CAA protesters in Delhi here</strong></a></p>.<p>The party is likely to evolve a strategy on the continued violence in Delhi, following protests over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).</p>.<p>The Congress is against the CAA and has urged the government to keep it in abeyance or take it back as it is causing concern among a major section of the country's population, especially the Muslim community.</p>.<p>The death toll in the northeast Delhi communal violence over the amended citizenship law rose to 17 on Wednesday, according to GTB Hospital authorities.</p>.<p>Communal violence in northeast Delhi escalated on Tuesday as police struggled to check the rioters who ran amok on streets, burning and looting shops, pelting stones and thrashing people.</p>