New Delhi, Aug 13 (TIWN) The Congress' decision to ask Sonia Gandhi to take over as interim president shows the "political leadership bankruptcy" in the party, said a former head of the AICC legal cell.

Lalit Bhasin, President, The Bar Association of India, and former Chairman-AICC Legal Cell, in a statement said that Sonia Gandhi ought not to have accepted the request and instead should have "paved the way for someone else as committed and competent as herself to take over as the Congress President".