Rahul Gandhi is likely to offer his resignation on Saturday before the top decision-making body of the Congress after the party's epic fail in the national election in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP and its allies won a spectacular mandate of over 350 seats in the 543-member Lok Sabha.
The Congress Working Committee (CWC), which includes Rahul Gandhi, his mother Sonia Gandhi, sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh, has begun its post-mortem in which chief ministers of Congress-ruled states - Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh - are also invitees.
The Congress, which dropped to a historic low of 44 seats in 2014, could only add eight more seats to its national tally with Rahul Gandhi's nationwide campaign circling around his "Chowkidar Chor Hai" barb for PM Modi failing to translate into votes.