Rahul Firm On Quitting Party Chief Post
According to sources Rahul Gandhi has told Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy that he would not continue as Congress president after the latter urged him to reconsider his decision of quitting the party chief post. Sources said that Kumaraswamy who met with the Congress chief before attending Prime Minister Narendra Modi's oath ceremony, urged him to not to quit but Rahul Gandhi remained firm. Rahul is reported to have said that Congress should pick a new president but he would stay to assist him/her. Rahul Gandhi has been adamant on resigning since Saturday. The party has called a meeting of the Congress Parliamentary Party on Saturday to take a decision on who will lead it in parliament. In the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections the Congress has won just 52 seats in the 543-member Lok Sabha. It didn’t open an account in 18 states and union territories in the national elections. Since the results the party is facing threats to its governments in Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, where it has very slim majority and the BJP may cause a few defections taking over.
