{"id":312643,"date":"2019-05-27T12:09:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T12:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312643"},"modified":"2019-05-27T12:09:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T12:09:42","slug":"punjab-congress-chief-sunil-jakhar-sends-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjab-congress-chief-sunil-jakhar-sends-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar sends resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306097 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sunilsggajakhar-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/sunilsggajakhar-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/sunilsggajakhar-506x420.jpg 506w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/sunilsggajakhar.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar, who lost the Lok Sabha election from Gurdaspur to BJP candidate Sunny Deol, on Monday, sent his resignation from the post to party president Rahul Gandhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The decision came after he took moral responsibility for losing his seat and party&#8217;s not so outstanding performance in Punjab.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jakhar in his letter said that he was unable to defend his seat despite the best support by the Congress President, General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi and Chief Minister Amarinder Singh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Everyone supported me fully and put in their best for me, but I was unable to defend my seat. In such a scenario I cannot continue as state chief. I feet a moral responsibility to quit,&#8221; said Jakhar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jakhar was elected in the 2017 bypolls held after the death of BJP lawmaker Vinod Khanna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The state unit presidents of the Congress in Odisha, Assam, and Madhya Pradesh have submitted their resignations to Rahul Gandhi after the party&#8217;s debacle in the Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul Gandhi too offered to resign from his post during the meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), but the party had refused to accept his resignation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress has won 8 of the 13 seats in Punjab. The Akali Dal and the BJP won two seats each while the Aam Adami Party (AAP) won one seat.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar, who lost the Lok Sabha election from Gurdaspur to BJP candidate Sunny Deol, on Monday, sent his resignation from the post to party president Rahul Gandhi. The decision came after he took moral responsibility for losing his seat and party&#8217;s not so outstanding performance in Punjab. Jakhar in his letter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":306097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2913,2014],"tags":[453,236,9831,3939,11386],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312650,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312643\/revisions\/312650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}