Congress' Haryana In-Charge Deepak Babaria Offers To Resign After Party's Loss In Assembly Polls

The announcement comes after the party held several meetings to discuss the party's performance in the election and the reason behind the disappointing defeat.

Congress Haryana in-charge Deepak Babaria offered to resign a day after Congress lost the assembly elections in the state, taking responsibility for the party's dismal performance in recently-held assembly polls. 

The announcement comes after the party held several meetings to discuss the party's performance in the election and the reason behind the disappointing defeat. 

Babaria said he offered his resignation to the high command soon after the result of the Haryana assembly polls came out last week, however, no decision has been communicated to him over the matter.

The BJP made a historic win in Haryana defying the exit poll predictions on October 8 and a decade of anti-incumbency in the state. While the BJP won 48 out of 90 seats in Haryana, Congress won 37 seats. 

The smaller-yet significant parties, including the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) were decimated, and the INLD managed to win two seats. No party has won a consecutive third term in Haryana ever since the state was formed in 1966.

“I have offered my resignation on the next day after the Haryana results were out. I am not greedy of any post. This Haryana elections results are unprecedented and there is misappropriation and malpractice in almost 15 seats in Haryana by the BJP at the behest of EVMs," the Congress General Secretary said on Monday, according to AajTak.

"I have always taken responsibility for the tasks entrusted to me by the party. I’ve been with the organisation for 52 years, and it’s not about clinging to a position for personal gain," Babaria said. 

The Congress top leadernship last Thursday held a review meeting on the party's shock defeat in Haryana Assembly polls and decided to form a fact-finding team that will speak to all its candidates to find out the reasons for the debacle. 

Sources said the leaders during the meeting discussed the possible reasons for the unexpected results in Haryana and decided to set up the team to ascertain the reasons behind such results and also look into complaints of discrepancies in EVMs, as alleged by party candidates.