Via PTI
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Congress leader Ajay Kumar Lallu on Tuesday resigned from his submit after taking ethical duty for the birthday celebration’s humiliating defeat within the state meeting polls.
The transfer comes after Congress president Sonia Gandhi requested the chiefs of its Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur devices to surrender amid persisted rumblings within the birthday celebration following its abject loss within the meeting elections in those states.
“I Ajay Kumar Lallu, President, Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee wish to apprise that the meeting elections had been held within the state in the previous couple of days and all UPCC place of job bearers labored arduous with devotion and took the organisation at village degree. We fought towards the fallacious insurance policies of the federal government every now and then,” Lallu stated in a letter to Sonia Gandhi.
“However we needed to face sudden defeat on this election. Taking ethical duty for this defeat, I’m resigning from the duty of the president submit,” he stated.
Lallu, who misplaced from Tamkuhi Raj seat, stated he’s going to paintings with complete devotion for the birthday celebration.
“Trusting a commonplace employee like me, you all made me the President of Uttar Pradesh Congress, for this I can be thankful right through my existence, I can all the time paintings with complete devotion for the birthday celebration,” the letter mentioned.
Previous within the day, the Congress held a gathering in Delhi to study its deficient efficiency within the Uttar Pradesh meeting polls, determine shortcomings and chalk out long term plans for the politically-crucial state.
AICC common secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi Vadra chaired the assembly which was once attended via the birthday celebration’s most sensible state leaders.
The assembly got here two days after Vadra introduced her file in regards to the birthday celebration’s drubbing within the polls at a gathering of the Congress Running Committee chaired via Sonia Gandhi. The Congress had received simplest two out of 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh, and were given a vote proportion of two.33 in step with cent.