Conceding defeat, Congress president Rahul Gandhi Thursdaycongratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP for their landslidevictory in the Lok Sabha polls, and said his party will continue to fight theideological battle with the saffron party.
Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, hesaid the Congress Working Committee will meet soon and decide on whether heshould resign as party chief following the electoral debacle.
The Congress could manage to add only a few seats to its2014 Lok Sabha tally of 44 seats.
“I congratulate Narendra Modiji and BJP for theirelectoral victory. People of India have decided that Narendra Modi will be thePM again and I fully respect that,” Gandhi said.
“The Congress will continue to fight its ideologicalbattle with BJP unitedly,” he added, asking the party workers not beafraid.
Gandhi also congratulated Smriti Irani on her victory inAmethi constituency in Uttar Pradesh from where he had won for threeconsecutive terms since 2004.