Gujarat Congress president Bharatsinh Solanki has resigned from his post.
Sources in the party said that Mr Solanki met the Congress president Rahul Gandhi and submitted his resignation. He is now leaving for the U.S. for two weeks.
However, Mr. Solanki told presspersons at the Ahmedabad airport that the party high command would take a final call on the matter. “I had offered to step down immediately after the 2017 Assembly polls. Now it is for the party high command to take a call,” he said. According to insiders, he was miffed with the party leadership for not giving him a Rajya Sabha berth. Recently, the party nominated former Union Minister Naran Rathwa and party spokesperson Amee Yagnik to the Rajya Sabha from the State.
