{"id":313860,"date":"2019-07-03T11:08:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T11:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313860"},"modified":"2019-07-03T11:08:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T11:08:56","slug":"i%e2%80%89am-not-congress-president-anymore-says-rahul-gandhi-cwc-must-meet-to-decide-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/i%e2%80%89am-not-congress-president-anymore-says-rahul-gandhi-cwc-must-meet-to-decide-successor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2009am not Congress President anymore\u2019, says Rahul Gandhi; CWC must meet to decide successor"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-300436 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rahul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"708\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul.jpg 708w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-696x702.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-416x420.jpg 416w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/>Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that he is not the Congress president anymore and Congress Working Committee (CWC) must meet and decide on the new chief without any further delay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul said as he had quit from his post, so he is not part of the process of finalising the next president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI am nowhere in this process. I have already resigned,\u201d said 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;\">Rahul today posted a letter on his twitter account and said that accountability was critical to the future growth of the party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt is an honour for me to serve the Congress Party, whose values and ideals have served as the lifeblood of our beautiful nation. I owe the country and my organisation a debt of tremendous gratitude and love,\u201d said Rahul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Taking responsibility for the party\u2019s defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul said, \u201cRebuilding the party requires hard decisions and numerous people will have to be made accountable for the failure of 2019. It would be unjust to hold others accountable but ignore my own responsibility as President of the party.\u201d<\/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 resigned as Congress president on May 25. The Congress party could win only 52 seats in the 543-member Lok Sabha.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that he is not the Congress president anymore and Congress Working Committee (CWC) must meet and decide on the new chief without any further delay. Rahul said as he had quit from his post, so he is not part of the process of finalising the next president. \u201cI am nowhere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":300436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[236,1544,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313860"}],"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=313860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313861,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313860\/revisions\/313861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}