Gujarat opposition leader offers to quit over Cong poll rout

In the wake of stunning defeat of the Congress in Gujarat, its senior legislator and Leader of Opposition Paresh Dhanani has offered to resign from his post taking moral responsibility for the rout.

Dhanani joins various Congress leaders across the country who have either resigned or offered to quit from their respective post after the Rahul Gandhi-led party's humiliating defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

The Congress could not open its account in Gujarat, where the ruling BJP won all the 26 Lok Sabha seats at stake.

In 2014 too, the opposition party had failed to win any seat in the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

"Our Leader of Opposition Paresh Dhanani has offered to resign, taking moral responsibility of the defeat, before state Congress in-charge Rajiv Satav," party sources said Tuesday.

Dhanani had himself contested from the Amreli Lok Sabha seat, where he lost by a margin of over two lakh votes to BJP candidate Naran Kachhadiya.

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