In attendance at the meeting are party veterans Ghulam Nabi Azad, Bhupinder Hooda, Anand Sharma, Shashi Tharoor and Manish Tewari – all signatories to the letter. The interim Congress chief has also called loyalists AK Antony, Ambika Soni, Ashok Gehlot, Rahul Gandhi’s confidante and organisation general secretary KC Venugopal, Harish Rawat and Pawan Bansal to the meeting. Former finance minister P. Chidambaram, who was not a signatory to the letter but has, since the party’s disastrous show in the recent Bihar assembly polls, backed some of the demands of the signatories, is also at the meeting. Former MP chief minister Kamal Nath, who played the mediator between Sonia and the 23 signatories and facilitated today’s meeting is also present at 10, Janpath.