New Delhi: Veteran Congress leader Motilal Vora will be the interim president of the party. Earlier, Rahul Gandhi once again insisted that he is no longer the national president of the party and Congress should seek a new President as soon as possible. Talking to the press in Parliament, Rahul Gandhi said, "The party should immediately elect a new President. I am not at all involved in this process.
Rahul Gandhi said, I have already resigned from my own country and I am no longer the party president. The Congress Working Committee (CWC) should meet and take a decision on the issue at the same time. After that, Rahul Gandhi tweeted his resignation for the first time and made it public through social media. At the same time, Rahul Gandhi changed his introduction on Twitter, removing the post of Congress President and holding only Congress MP.
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It may be mentioned that Rahul Gandhi resigned as the party's national president at a meeting of the Congress Working Committee on May 25 following the Congress' bitter defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, taking moral responsibility for the defeat. However, the CWC unanimously rejected his resignation. After that, several senior party leaders also tried to persuade Rahul Gandhi to continue in office.
