In the wake of the crushing defeat of the Congress in UP Assembly elections, actor-turned-politician Raj Babbar on Wednesday offered to resign from the post of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) president.
"I could not live up to the expectation. I was given responsibility but I could not fulfil it, I accept it," Babbar was quoted as saying to a new agency.
The Congress, which had formed an alliance with the Samajwadi Party, could not win the votes of the public and thus failed to form the government in the state. Both parties together could manage to win only 54 seats, while the BJP stormed to victory with 312 seats in the 403-seat UP Assembly.