In Uttar Pradesh, the state unit of Congress Rita Bahuguna Joshi today extended her resignation to the party high command.

Our correspondent reports that taking moral responsibility of dismal performance of her party in just concluded assembly election she met Party president Sonia Gandhi and extended her resignation. Congress had won only 28 seats and routed out in its strong hold districts of Raebareli, Sultanpur and Chhatrapati Sahuji Maharaj Nagar districts.

State BJP President Surya Pratap Shahi has also resigned from his post after party`s set back in assembly polls.
Meanwhile the Rashtriya Lok Dal RLD has now begun its review the causes that deprived it of the expected support to the party. Party chief Ajit Singh has asked the state leaders to prepare an independent report on the reasons that led to the party's defeat in Assembly constituencies won by it in the 2007 election. A meeting of national executive has been convened in New Delhi next week to discuss on the
issue.

In 2007, RLD had won 10 Assembly seats despite contesting the election alone but this time it could win only nine seats, that too new ones despite the tie-up with Congress. The lone sitting MLA who has succeeded in winning election is Puran Prakash from Baldev Reserved Assembly constituency in Mathura district. The rest of the party MLAs, including its legislature party leader in previous Assembly, Koukab Hameed, has been rejected by voters in his home turf.

RLD had contested 46 seats but won only in nine places getting a vote share of 2.33 per cent in this election.