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Following Near Total Rout In UP, Congress’s State Unit Chief Raj Babbar Submits Resignation To Rahul Gandhi
Swarajya Staff
May 24, 2019, 02:10 PM | Updated 02:10 PM IST
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Following the Congress’s poor showing in Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, the president of the party’s state unit Raj Babbar has submitted his resignation from his post to the Congress national president Rahul Gandhi, reports Hindustan Times.
“The results are depressing for the Uttar Pradesh Congress. I find myself guilty of not discharging my responsibility in a proper manner,” Babbar has posted on social media site Twitter.
Out of the 80 seats which were up for grabs in the state, Congress was reduced to just one, an even worse performance than the 2014 general elections when the party had managed to secure two seats in the state.
The only seat where the party was able to hold its own in Uttar Pradesh was Rae Bareli, where Sonia Gandhi has been elected. In a rude shock for its leadership, the party even lost Rahul Gandhi’s seat in Amethi where BJP leader Smriti Irani emerged the winner.
Babbar himself lost by a margin of almost five lakh votes in the Fatehpur Sikri constituency to BJP candidate Rajkumar Chahar.
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