'Will cause us pain' if he resigns, says Shiela Dikshit as Rahul refuses to meet her
New Delhi, May 29: With Rahul Gandhi continuing to remain adamant to resign as the Congress President, former Delhi chief minister Shiela Dikshit went to the former's residence and urged him not to resign. Dikshit, reportedly, could not meet Rahul but left a message for him.
Reports say that Rahul Gandhi, who is determined to quit as Congress president, refused to meet party leaders including Sheila Dikshit even as scores of leaders and workers gathered outside his Delhi home with slogans and placards to try to persuade him to change his mind, an NDTV report said.
"'I have given him the message that he should not resign. We want him to continue on his post, otherwise it will cause us pain. We have conveyed that to him," she told media.
The uncertainty in the Congress continued to prevail with its Rahul Gandhi sticking to his offer to resign, even as some party workers sat on a hunger strike outside his house to convince him against quitting.
The crisis in the Congress showed no signs of easing with Gandhi sticking to his decision to resign as party chief after its Lok Sabha poll debacle and staying away from meeting party leaders.
[Reshuffling in Congress-ruled states in offing]
On Tuesday, Gandhi had only met his mother and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, besides senior party leader K C Venugopal and the Congress's chief spokesperson, Randeep Surjewala.
Rajasthan
Chief
Minister
Ashok
Gehlot
and
his
deputy
Sachin
Pilot
went
to
meet
Gandhi
at
his
Tughlaq
Lane
residence
on
Tuesday,
but
they
only
met
Priyanka
there.
There
is
speculation
that
Sachin
Pilot
too
may
quit
as
Deputy
Chief
Minister
of
Rajasthan
and
state
Congress
chief
along
with
his
team
of
MLAs,
in
case
Gandhi
quits
his
post.