DHAKA: Congress working committee members could offer their resignation at its meeting on Monday in the wake of the party’s worst-ever performance in the Lok Sabha polls, amid indications that it could witness an attack on advisers of Rahul Gandhi while insulating him from criticism.

While there has been no official word about such a move, the talk about the CWC members offering to resign in the first meeting of the party’s highest decision making body since the poll debacle began following remarks of Ahmed Patel, political secretary to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, that ‘all, including myself, are responsible for the party's loss’.

‘How can you blame any individual for this result? It is the collective responsibility of both the party and the government. All, including myself, are responsible for the party’s loss,’ Patel has said in the wake of resentment in the party at the way Rahul ran the election campaign.

While party sources have ruled out reports of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi offering to resign in the wake of debacle, the meeting could see some leaders raising uncomfortable questions about the party's campaign and alliance strategy.

The meeting is taking place amid a clamour within for a surgical action to revamp the party, reports The Times of India.

BDST: 1930 HRS, MAY 19, 2014