Senior officials from India’s Congress party beg Gandhi to reconsider resignation
Party is left without a leader a month after election drubbing
02 July 2019 - 17:55
New Delhi — Rahul Gandhi has spurned appeals to reconsider his resignation as leader of India’s Congress Party after losing a second general election to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an aide said on Tuesday, as the party faces its worst crisis in a decade.
Stuck between a leader determined to quit and party officials unwilling to accept his leaving, Congress is effectively leaderless more than a month after its election drubbing and facing key state polls in late 2019. ..
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