Rahul Gandhi holds meeting over Maharashtra elections

Owning up to their defeat in Lok Sabha elections, several Congress leaders on Friday gave up their posts by tendering resignation to party President Rahul Gandhi, in order to give him a free hand to choose a new team. Several office-bearers of the Congress, including its general secretary in charge of Madhya Pradesh Dipak Babaria and Goa unit chief Girish Chodankar, resigned on Friday, after MP Vivek Tankha quit as the chairman of the party's legal and human rights cell and urged others to follow suit to give a free hand to Rahul Gandhi to restructure the party at all levels.