Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi offered on Monday to resign from their posts after the party's “worst ever election performance,” but the party fellows refused to let them go.
"Sonia and Rahul offered to resign, but the Congress Working Committee(CWC) rejected it," Amrinder Singh, a senior party leader from the northern state of Punjab, told Reuters.
The CWC passed a unanimous resolution expressing full faith in the leadership of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, reported Zee News.
Denying their offers to resign, outgoing PM Manmohan Singh said, "Resignation of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi is no solution to the problems faced by Congress."
Party spokesperson Raj Babbar expressed his faith in the Congress' current leadership, and added, "We will fight under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi."
Sonia and Rahul appeared before the media on Friday and took personal responsibility for the drubbing that left the party with just 44 seats in a House of 543, a huge climbdown from 206 seats it had in the outgoing Lok Sabha.
