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Siddaramaiah and Deshpande send in resignation letters to Sonia, post-debacle

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TAKE MORAL RESPONSIBILITY: Siddaramaiah, Opposition leader in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly (right), and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committe president R.V. Deshpande, addressing the press in Bangalore on Thursday.

BANGALORE: The defeat of Congress candidates in the byelections to both the Gulbarga South and Kadur Assembly constituencies has led to the resignation of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president, R.V. Deshpande, and Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly Siddaramaiah. Both of them have sent across their resignation letters to All India Congress Committee president Sonia Gandhi.

Though his term as KPCC president is coming to an end and the KPCC on Wednesday authorised Ms. Gandhi to appoint a new president and executive committee members, Mr. Deshpande has written to Ms. Gandhi requesting her to relieve him at the earliest.

‘No gimmick'

Denying that his resignation was a gimmick or to please somebody, Mr. Siddaramaiah said that it was a conscientious decision and hoped that Ms. Gandhi would accept it. He said that he had campaigned day and night for Kemparaj in the villages for a week, but still people did not vote for him, and his party had been pushed to the third position.

Mr. Deshpande said that the party had worked well in both the constituencies, but Janata Dal (Secular) candidate Aruna Chandrashekhar Patil won because of the sympathy factor.

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