Rahul Gandhi announced his resignation as leader of India’s opposition Congress party, taking responsibility for its dismal result in the recent national election.
"Rebuilding the party requires hard decisions and numerous people have to be made accountable for the failure of 2019," Gandhi wrote in a letter released Wednesday. "It would be unjust to hold others accountable but ignore my own responsibility as president of the party," the letter read.
Rahul is the grandson of the late Indira Gandhi- and great-grandson of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Rahul had lost one of the two seats he contested during the elections.
