Assam CM Tarun Gogoi to resign today

May 22, 2014 09:04

Tarun Gogoi will on Thursday tender his resignation to Congress president Sonia Gandhi as Assam Chief Minister, taking "full responsibility" for the party's electoral defeat in the state.

On the day counting was being done in the parliamentary elections, Gogoi told a private TV channel in Guwahati: "I take full responsibility. We are going to accept the people's mandate with all humility. I am going to tender my resignation to the Congress president."

Gogoi, however, said the Congress would retain power in Assam in the 2016 assembly election.

The BJP swept the Lok Sabha polls in Assam by securing seven of the total 14 seats in the state.

The ruling Congress could bag only three seats, and the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) also managed to secure three seats

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