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Lok Sabha Election Results 2019: Congress leaders huddle at CWC meeting amid clamour on fixing responsibility

Rahul Gandhi is likely to offer his resignation at the meet, party sources said.

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AICC president Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference at AICC headquarters in New Delhi on Thursday. (ANI Photo)
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Top Congress leaders arrived from across the country Saturday got together to review the Lok Sabha poll drubbing, as the party's highest decision-making body met in the national capital. 

Chaired by Congress president Rahul Gandhi, the meeting is being attended by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, former Prime Minister party's leader in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, leader of the party in outgoing Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge and Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh among others. Chief ministers of party-ruled states are also in attendance. 

Top Congress leaders will discuss party losses at the meeting where party chief Rahul Gandhi is likely to offer his resignation.

The top Congress leadership will deliberate on the reasons of the humiliating loss in Lok Sabha elections and assess them. The party suffered a loss for the second time in a row at the hands of the Narendra Modi led BJP.

The party bagged only 52 seats in this election. There have already been voices within to introspect on why the party failed to reach out to the people.

Though there was no official word on the agenda for the meeting, sources said the committee will talk about future strategies. The CWC is also expected to take stock of the party's loss in Uttar Pradesh.

Congress, despite extensive campaigning by its president Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, was decimated to a single seat in Uttar Pradesh - Sonia Gandhi's Raebareli Lok Sabha seat. Rahul Gandhi, who represented the Amethi seat since 2004, lost to BJP's Smriti Irani.

The source also indicated that the committee is likely to discuss the party's complete loss in the states like Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh where it had won the Assembly elections just five months ago.

All members of the committee have been instructed to talk and put their proposal openly in front of the committee in the meeting today, the sources said.

(With inputs from PTI, ANI)

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