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Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, offered to resign on Saturday after his Congress party was trounced in a second straight national election but the gesture was rejected, party officials said.
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi triumphantly accepted pledges of allegiance from members of allied parties after his second landslide win, Congress leaders licked their wounds at a special meeting in New Delhi.
"Party president Rahul Gandhi offered his resignation but it was unanimously rejected by the members of Congress Working Commission," Randeep Surjewala, a party spokesman, told reporters.
"In a democracy wins and losses keep happening but providing leadership is a different matter. He gave leadership," senior Congress member Ghulam Nabi Azad told reporters after the meeting.
In Kolkata, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee said that she also offered to quit as the West Bengal chief minister but her party refused to accept the resignation.
Meanwhile, newly elected lawmakers from the ruling alliance elected Modi as their leader on Saturday, paving the way for his second five-year term as prime minister.
President Ram Nath Kovind later in the evening appointed Modi as prime minister.
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