New Delhi: “I am not the Congress president and I am not going back on my decision,” Rahul Gandhi told his party’s Lok Sabha members after they jointly made a plea to him on Wednesday to reconsider his decision of quitting the post.
The Congress had convened a meeting of its Lok Sabha members to evolve the party’s strategy in the lower house of Parliament on Wednesday.
Soon after the meeting, chaired by Congress Parliamentary Party leader Sonia Gandhi, started, some party MPs from Tamil Nadu urged him to reconsider his decision and wanted a resolution to be passed, sources said.
All the party MPs then joined them and made a plea to Rahul, but he stuck to his decision, they said.
According to the sources, Rahul said he has asked the Congress Working Committee to make arrangements to instal a party chief in his place and lamented that nothing has been in this regard so far.
Rahul had quit taking full responsibility for the party’s Lok Sabha poll debacle. He had conveyed his decision at the meeting of the CWC on May 25.
The CWC, the highest decision-making body of the party, rejected his resignation and asked him to revamp and restructure the party at all levels instead.
Rahul has not been meeting party leaders since then and has not been actively involved in the party’s affairs.
He was to hold a meeting of Congress leaders from Maharashtra on Wednesday, for the party’s poll preparedness for upcoming assembly elections there, but it has been postponed now to June 29.
Rahul is likely to meet leaders from Haryana on Thursday.
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I am fed up hearing the news everyday. Let us leave it to…. jo Hua.. tho.. hua..
In Shakespeare’s “Juliius Caeser” Casca, mocking at Caeser’s ambitions to be a Dictator, masked by his false show of humility, says that “Caeser was offered the Crown thrice but he “Gently” pushed it back, though he would have GLADLY put it on”. Any resemblance is “coincidental”.
It is truly pathetic that over a month after his resignation the Congress has not yet even set about the task of finding a new President for the party.
Most people of India have now rejected the Nehru Indira dynasty. Sooner the better for the Indian souls in Congress to get rid of the dynasty. Rahul Gandhi has promoted the brand of Congress that has no takers among the youths of emerging India. Rahul Gandhi’s only achievement is that Hindus are now united to defeat the Congress. Where are the brave souls who can take control of Congress and reinvent it for today’s India. It’s not just throwing out Rahul Gandhi and people around him, but also all those who don’t feel pride in Indian culture should be out of Congress. All those for whom India’s history starts from 700 AD and all those who dislike the saffron color must be out as well.