Rahul Gandhi may offer to resign at CWC meet

Amid speculation that Congress President Rahul Gandhi may offer to resign, a Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting is scheduled on Saturday to look into the reasons for the party’s Lok Sabha elections debacle and decide on its further course of action to take on the BJP, which has grown in strength over the last five years.

Rahul Gandhi has taken full responsibility for the party’spoll defeat and there is speculation that he may offer to resign at the CWCmeeting.

   

However, the party leaders are backing him strongly and havesaid that the blame for party’s poor showing cannot be put on any oneindividual.

At the CWC meet, Rahul Gandhi and other party leaders areexpected to give their assessment of what went wrong and the remedial stepsthat must be taken.

There was reports of Rahul Gandhi having offered to resignon Thursday, after the results, but the Congress denied those.

Rahul Gandhi himself answered the question at a pressconference he addressed later in the day. “We will have a meeting of theWorking Committee. That you can leave between me and the WorkingCommittee,” he said.

He also admitted that the road for the party was long andtough, but asked party workers and leaders not to lose heart.

The Congress has won 52 seats in the elections, just eightmore than the 44 it won in 2014. Rahul Gandhi was a prominent face in both theelections.

The party won a single seat (Rae Bareli) in Uttar Pradesh,but Rahul Gandhi himself failed to retain his family bastion of Amethi inIndia’s biggest state. The loss is likely to have implications not just onCongress’ revival plans in Uttar Pradesh, but also on his own politicalstanding as a leader. He won from Kerala’s Wayanad.

The results show that Rahul Gandhi, who became the Congresschief in 2017, has not been able to galvanise the party to offer a strongcounter against the BJP, which has handed the main opposition party its worstelectoral outcomes.

The Congress scored a nil in 18 states and Union territoriesin these elections, and failed to dent the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in theHindi heartland states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, where itformed governments last year.

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