{"id":313911,"date":"2019-07-07T12:41:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T12:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313911"},"modified":"2019-07-07T12:41:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T12:41:42","slug":"jyotiraditya-scindia-resigns-as-congress-general-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jyotiraditya-scindia-resigns-as-congress-general-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Jyotiraditya Scindia resigns as Congress General Secretary"},"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-313912 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/jyotiraditya.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/jyotiraditya.jpg 638w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/jyotiraditya-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/>Jyotiraditya Scindia on Sunday resigned from the post of\u00a0Congress\u00a0General Secretary over the party&#8217;s defeat in the recently concluded 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;\">Scindia thanked\u00a0Rahul Gandhi\u00a0for giving him the opportunity to serve the Congress party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAccepting the people\u2019s verdict and taking accountability, I had submitted my resignation as General Secretary of AICC to Shri @RahulGandhi. I thank him for entrusting me with this responsibility and for giving me the opportunity to serve our party,\u201d Scindia said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress had appointed Jyotiraditya Scindia as General Secretary for Uttar Pradesh-West.\u00a0However, the Congress could win only one of 80 parliamentary seats in Uttar Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Scindia also lost his traditional Guna seat in Madhya Pradesh to BJP\u2019s KP Yadav.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">His resignation came hours after party&#8217;s Mumbai unit president Milind Deora stepped down from his post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On May 25, Rahul Gandhi resigned from the post of Congress president at a CWC meeting,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the past few days, numerous senior leaders had resigned from their posts taking full responsibility for the defeat in the general elections.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jyotiraditya Scindia on Sunday resigned from the post of\u00a0Congress\u00a0General Secretary over the party&#8217;s defeat in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections. Scindia thanked\u00a0Rahul Gandhi\u00a0for giving him the opportunity to serve the Congress party. \u201cAccepting the people\u2019s verdict and taking accountability, I had submitted my resignation as General Secretary of AICC to Shri @RahulGandhi. I thank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[11602,5251],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313911"}],"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=313911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313913,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313911\/revisions\/313913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}