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The AK Antony committee, formed to assess the reasons of the Congress's worst performance ever in Lok Sabha elections, has concluded that party vice-president Rahul Gandhi was not responsible for the crushing defeat.

"Rahul Gandhi was not responsible for poll debacle... I am not going to reveal or say anything about the content of the report," senior Congress leader and former Defence Minister A K Antony said.

The committee, which submitted its report to Sonia Gandhi on Thursday, also spared her as well as former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh while looking for reasons that reduced the party to a mere 44 seats in Lok Sabha after 10 years of UPA rule.

"Rahul and Sonia ji were the ones who held rallies across the country. Something else was the reason for the loss," he said.

The four-member Congress committee was formed under Antony soon after the Lok Sabha elections results were declared in May. Mukul Wasnik, R C Khuntia and Avinash Pandey were the other members of the panel.

"Congress will reclaim its glory in the leadership of Sonia ji and Rahul ji," Wasnik said.

Rahul was the chief architect of his party's 2014 campaign, which failed in matching up to the high-voltage BJP campaign led by Narendra Modi.