Committee rejects Rahul Gandhi's offer to quit as Congress chief

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Indian National Congress Party president Rahul Gandhi (R) gestures while talking to his mother and former Congress party senior leader Sonia Gandhi (L) during a Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting in New Delhi.-AFP
Indian National Congress Party president Rahul Gandhi (R) gestures while talking to his mother and former Congress party senior leader Sonia Gandhi (L) during a Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting in New Delhi.-AFP

New Delhi - He offered to resign from the post owning moral responsibility of the party's loss in 2019 general elections.

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Published: Sat 25 May 2019, 11:00 AM

Last updated: Sun 26 May 2019, 1:19 AM

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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