New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday skipped the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) meet chaired by the Sonia Gandhi to mark the 25th death anniversary of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Rahul's absence from the youth Congress meet has raised concern within the Congress camp after its poll debacle in four states especially in Assam where the party was thrown out after being in power for 15 years.

In Kerala, too, the Congress-led United Democratic Front lost to Left Democratic Front while in Tamil Nadu the party in alliance with the DMK failed to dislodge J Jayalalithaa's AIADMK from power.

Rahul was apparently annoyed with the Congress-Left alliance in Bengal but he was convinced by some senior leaders to go ahead with the decision to fight together against Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal.

However, the Congress-Left Front alliance was decimated by the Trinamool which retained power with a bigger mandate than the 2011 elections.

Sources said, he is likely to resume party duties from Monday and will meet party leaders to analysis the poll debacle.

Ever since Congress faced a massive defeat in four states, there is a growing discontent among the party leadership. Senior party leader Digvijaya Singh on May 19 called for a major surgery.

He later clarified that Sonia Gandhi was his leader number one and Rahul is the leader number two but the party must take corrective measures.

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