Congress: To lead or not to lead
Rahulâs offer to resign is the first attempt by a Nehru-Gandhi to shoulder the blame. But, swamped by the Modi wave, the Congress has been rendered irrelevant. In the four states that the Congress claimed assembly election victories, it suffered humiliating defeats.
Rahul Gandhi, it appears, is still intent on resigning as Congress president, stung by the scale of his party's electoral defeat. There was no official word from the Congress at the time of going to press. But Sonia Gandhi, Rahul's mother and Congress president for a record 19 years, has reportedly argued that his resignation is unnecessary and without precedent in the party.
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