Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar latest to offer resignation after Lok Sabha debacle

New Delhi,may 27:
Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar has offered to resign from his post after he lost elections from Gurdaspur – a seat he wrestled from the BJP in 2017 by-polls.The Congress won eight of Punjab`s 13 Lok Sabha seats in recently-concluded Lok Sabha elections. Jakhar, however, lost to newly-minted BJP leader Sunny Deol by a considerable margin of 82,459 votes.Late actor Vinod Khanna had won the seat for the BJP in 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2014. in 2017, his death necessitated the by-poll in which Jakhar emerged victoriously.Along with Punjab, the state unit presidents of Assam, Jharkhand, Odisha, and Madhya Pradesh have also offered to resign from their positions after the party fared poorly the national polls in each of their states.As per sources, Congress president Rahul Gandhi, during the party`s working committee meeting, also offered to resign from his post, however, it was declined by senior leaders.