Raj Babbar offers to resign as UP Cong Prez after UP defeat
Raj Babbar has offered to resign from the post of Uttar Pradesh Congress chief after the poor performance of his political party in Assembly elections. "I could not live up to the expectation. I was given responsibility but I could not fulfil it, I accept it," he said. Notably, the Congress won just seven of the 105 seats it contested.
Raj Babbar has offered to resign from the post of Uttar Pradesh Congress chief after his party's disastrous performance in the just concluded in the state."I could not live up to the expectation. I was given responsibility but I could not fulfil it, I accept it," Raj Babbar said. The Congress, which had fought the Uttar Pradesh election in alliance with the Samajwadi Party, won just seven of the 105 it contested, a tally lower than the Apna Dal, which won nine. In further insult to the injury, the Congress lost all five seats in Rahul Gandhi's Lok Sabha constituency Amethi, with four of them going to the BJP.CONGRESS NEEDS STRUCTURAL CHANGES: RAHUL GANDHITalking to reporters outside Parliament on Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi accused the BJP of using money power for forming government in Goa and Manipur despite Congress emerging as the single largest party. However, he admitted that Congress needed structural changes."We are in the opposition, you have ups and downs. We had a little down in Uttar Pradesh, that's fine we accept it. We had five elections, we formed the government in Punjab and won in Manipur and Goa. That is not a bad result. It is true that we lost in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand," Gandhi said. "But as far Congress is concerned we do need to make structural, organisational changes," he said, adding that Congress had an ideological fight with the Bharatiya Janata Party. Despite the humiliating loss in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress has made it clear that there was no question of vice president Rahul Gandhi stepping down."There is no question of Rahul Gandhi stepping down," veteran leader Digvijaya Singh had said  in response to media queries about a change of guard in the Congress top brass."The Nehru-Gandhi family is the greatest binding factor for the Congress and the leadership has to come to Rahul," he said.Singh, however, conceded that the Congress party needed to build regional leaders.