NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has offered to resign from the post due to pathetic failure of Congress in the recent assembly elections in five states. Priyanka Gandhi has also offered to resigh as AICC General secretary. Rahul Gandhi is expected to offer his resignation on Sunday.

The three will offer their resignations at the Congress Working Committee on Sunday. This is not the first time that Sonia and Rahul have prepared to resign from party posts. The meeting was scheduled to convene at 4.30 pm on Sunday after some members of the 56-member working committee called for a change in party leadership and also due to the lack of support from supporters of the Nehru family . But there are doubts nationally as to whether this is their pressure tactics.

The intense pressure from the leaders of Group 23 has led to the meeting tomorrow. There are indications that the Nehru family is planning to replace Sonia Gandhi with Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot as president and Mallikarjun Kharge as parliamentary party leader. Rahul Gandhi has resigned as party president following pathetic performance in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. During the elections in five states, in some areas the Congress did not even get as many votes as the regional parties.