New Delhi: Even as economic slowdown grips India, the permanent staff at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi have reason to cheer.
They are getting a month's salary as bonus for winning the Delhi and Rajasthan Assembly elections.
But the bonus is not as unexpected as the wins that came last month.
It's a kind of tradition in the Congress to give cash bonuses after electoral wins.
In 2004, when the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) came to power, three-month ' salary was given as bonus.
There are about 200 permanent staff at the Congress headquarters.
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