Sonia Gandhi to continue as the Congress chief, party’s working committee decided on Sunday as it held a meeting to review the party’s poor performance in the recently-concluded Assembly elections in five states.
“CWC [Congress Working Committee] solidly confirms its faith in the leadership and requests Congress President Smt Sonia Gandhi to lead from the front, address organisational weaknesses, effect comprehensive changes in order to take on the political challenges,” Congress General Secretary (Organisation) KC Venugopal said at a press conference after the meeting.
CWC statement:
— Congress (@INCIndia) March 13, 2022
CWC unanimously reaffirms its faith in the leadership & requests Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi to lead from the front, address organisational weaknesses, effect comprehensive changes in order to take on the political challenges.
: Shri @kcvenugopalmp
In view of the party’s performance in the elections, unidentified officials had told that Sonia Gandhi and party leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra would offer to resign from their posts.
However, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said after the meeting on Sunday that the Congress Working Committee rejected the offer of the Gandhis to resign, reported ANI.
The Congress had managed to win only 55 of the 690 seats spread across the five states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa in the results declared on Thursday. It lost Punjab to the Aam Aadmi Party and failed to wrest power from the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur.
In Uttar Pradesh, where the BJP won with a comfortable majority, the Congress won just two seats in the 403-member state Assembly.
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