However, Kashyap alone is not to blame since even self-proclaimed fact-checkers have resorted to whitewashing the crime and basing their 'fact-checks' on police statements instead of scientific evidence
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor came out in support of the party president saying that Rahul Gandhi is the best person to pull the Congress out of its predicament following the setback in the Lok Sabha polls.
Rahul Gandhi is still adamant on resigning from the party president post and to further discuss the issue another meeting of the CWC has been reportedly called, later in the week.
Amusingly, though Rahul Gandhi had indeed offered to resign, the CWC, that is chaired by himself, had unanimously rejected the resignation and asked him to reconstruct the party