TN Cong chief Elangovan quits

June 25, 2016 20:43

Tamil Nadu Congress Committee President E V K S Elangovan has tendered his resignation owning up responsibility for the party's poor show in assembly elections after Vice-President Rahul Gandhi was claimed to have expressed his displeasure over the drubbing.

"Our party's state unit chief submitted his resignation on June 15 itself as electoral results were not on expected lines," party functionary V R Sivaraman, a confidant of Elangovan, told reporters. Congress, which contested 41 seats as part of the DMK-led alliance, could manage only eight of them.

Factionalism in the party surfaced in the backdrop of the resignation of Elangovan with aspirants lobbying for the top state unit post. It is not yet known whether Elangovan's resignation has been accepted or not.

While factions opposed to Elangovan claimed that he put in his papers after Rahul Gandhi expressed displeasure over the party's poll performance, Sivaraman rejected it. "Its not so.

Rahul only told him (Elangovan) that the party could have done better and our chief answered that he did his best and also indicated that he was not averse to the idea of the party being led by someone with better abilities in TN," he told PTI.

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