Rahul Gandhi resigns as Congress party’s president

SRINAGAR — Rahul Gandhi formally resigned as the Congress president on Wednesday and posted a 4-page letter on Twitter to announce his decision while asking the party’s working committee to choose his successor.

Rahul Gandhi said that he has already resigned and the Congress Working Committee (CWC) should make the appointment soon.

It is an honour for me to serve the Congress Party, whose values and ideals have served as the lifeblood of our beautiful nation.

I owe the country and my organisation a debt of tremendous gratitude and love.

Jai Hind 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/WWGYt5YG4V

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) July 3, 2019

Rahul Gandhi said in the letter, “I suggest way forward would be to entrust a group of people with task of beginning searching for a new president.”

Taking moral responsibility for the party’s poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections, Gandhi resigned as Congress president at a CWC meeting on May 25, two days after the results were declared.

Over a month later on Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi formally announced the decision.

The decision has drawn emotional reactions from politicians across party lines while the BJP continued with its attack on Gandhi.

BJP leader Nalin Kohli said, “It is up to him whether he continues or resigns. There are two types of parties, one like the BJP which is democratically run and the other is Congress, which is family driven. So it is for them to decide, we have no role.”

National Conference (NC) chief Farooq Abdullah said, “Mubarak Ho that he stood by his decision. He’s young and he can become president again in the future. He had always wanted someone else in that position, I can’t say that defeat did this. I think he’ll now work towards building the party.”