New Delhi: Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Sheila Dikshit has dissolved all 280 block Congress committees in the national capital with immediate effect.
According to a press release, the Congress leader took this decision keeping in line with the report submitted by the five-member fact-finding committee constituted for the Lok Sabha elections 2019.
The decision comes hours after she met party president Rahul Gandhi on Friday to discuss the reasons for the rout on all seven seats in the national capital.
For the second time in a row, the Congress party drew a blank in the national capital in recently concluded parliamentary elections. BJP won all seven Lok Sabha seats in the city.
Dikshit unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha poll against BJP’s Delhi unit chief Manoj Tiwari from the North-East Delhi seat.
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Meanwhile, Deepak Babaria, Congress general secretary in charge of Madhya Pradesh, has resigned from his post. Besides this, Haryana Mahila Congress president Sumitra Chouhan also stepped down from her post, saying that she will not accept any party position till party president Rahul Gandhi withdrew his resignation.
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