Saturday, May 25th, 2019
Congress Working Committee rejects Rahul Gandhi’s resignation after 2019 defeat
The Congress Working Committee (CWC) has accepted the verdict of the 2019 Lok Sabha election and unanimously turned down an offer by party president Rahul Gandhi to resign, according to a resolution it adopted after the defeat. Rahul Gandhi’s offer The resolution said Gandhi offered to step down as president in his address to the committee, but members rejected the offer with one voice and asked him to continue leading the party. They urged him to take up the causes of young people, farmers, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and OBCs,Read More
Congress Working Committee meets to review crushing Lok Sabha defeat
The Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party’s top decision-making body, was set to meet on Saturday to review the Lok Sabha election results. The Congress won only 52 seats, a small improvement on its worst-ever showing of 44 seats in 2014. Rahul Gandhi’s position The party strongly denied speculation that its president Rahul Gandhi had offered to step down, calling such reports “mischievous and incorrect”. One Congress leader said that even if Gandhi did offer to quit, as some expected, the offer would probably be turned down, since he hadRead More