Rahul Gandhi likely to resign from the post of Congress President at CWC meeting

Soon after the results of the polls were out, Gandhi addressed a press conference where he accepted his defeat and congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party for their victory.

Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi: A day after Rahul Gandhi-led Congress faced a massive defeat in Lok Sabha elections; the party Chief is likely to tender his resignation from the post. As per reports, the same will be presented during the Congress Working Committee meeting (CWC) which is set to take place on May 25. The sources tell that Gandhi wanted to quit from his post immediately after the results of the polls were out on May 23, where Congress along with allies could only bag 87 seats; but he was stopped by his mother and UPA President Sonia Gandhi, who asked him if he wants to resign, he must present his resignation in CWC meeting. Soon after the results of the polls were out, Gandhi addressed a press conference where he accepted his defeat and congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party for their victory. The most shocking and shameful part for Congress was that he lost his home-turf Amethi to BJP leader Smriti Irani The BJP got an absolute majority bagging 272 of the 458 seats, results of which were declared past midnight and was on course to touch the 300-seat mark in the 543-member Lok Sabha. Leading in another 31 seats, the BJP is set to surpass its 2014 performance when it won 282 seats. With the elections establishing the 68-year-old Modi as the most popular leader in decades, the BJP and its allies in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) are poised to clinch around 350 seats as against their previous 336. Former prime minister and JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda also bit the dust when he lost the Tumkur seat in Karnataka where the BJP bagged 25 of the 28 seats.