Gandhis offer to resign after defeat, party refuses

Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi (R) and her son and vice-president of Congress Rahul Gandhi arrive to attend the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting in New Delhi May 19, 2014. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Sonia and Rahul Gandhi offered on Monday to resign from their posts as leaders of the Congress party after its worst ever election performance, but colleagues refused to let them go. "Sonia and Rahul offered to resign, but the Congress Working Committee rejected it," said Amarinder Singh, a senior party leader from Punjab. (Reporting by Frank Jack Daniel; Editing by Douglas Busvine)