Election Results 2019: “Astonishing Rahul Gandhi Hasn’t Yet Resigned”, Says Ramachandra Guha

New Delhi:
Congress president Rahul Gandhi confronted one of his worst days in politics yesterday. Besides going for walks a disastrous campaign that left his birthday celebration in tatters across the country, Rahul Gandhi should not even maintain his own constituency Amethi, a family stronghold that he had gained easily on account that 2004.
As calls for Rahul Gandhi’s resignation emerged, which include from inside his party, a gut-punch came from eminent historian Ramachandra Guha, who has been admiring of the Congress chief’s brilliant grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first high minister.
“It is fantastic that Rahul Gandhi has not yet resigned as Congress president,” tweeted Ramachandra Guha.”Both self-respect as properly as political pragmatism, demand that the Congress go with a new leader. But perhaps the Congress has neither.”
In every other publish reacting to a similar assessment with the aid of psephologist Yogendra Yadav, Mr Guha posted: “The Congress should dump the Dynasty.”
The Congress has gained 92 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha, and has been wiped out even in the three states that it won in December. The BJP, in spite of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s aggressive marketing campaign targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, gained a report victory.
Yogendra Yadav had prompted a flutter with a tweet related to his comments to India Today after exit polls estimated a BJP sweep. “The Congress have to die. If it may want to now not give up the BJP in this election to keep the thought of India, this birthday party has no high quality position in Indian history. Today it represents the single largest obstacle to introduction of an alternative,” Mr Yadav had tweeted.
On Thursday, Rahul Gandhi said he held himself “100 per cent responsible” for the party’s defeat. Asked whether he would resign, he said: “Let that be between me and the Working Committee.”
The 48-year-old is expected to offer his resignation when the Congress Working Committee, the party’s top selection making body, meets on Saturday to discuss the drubbing.
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In 2014, after the Congress plunged to its worst national election overall performance with forty four seats, Rahul Gandhi had instructed reporters: “There’s a lot for us to suppose about, and, as vice president of the party, I maintain myself responsible.” But the birthday party rejected his resignation.