In her first public comment on the party's worst showing in the elections, Gandhi said many Congress leaders were talking of collective responsibility, but as the party president "I have no hesitation in acknowledging that the prime responsibility for our poor performance in these elections rests with me".

"And I am more than willing to accept whatever judgment or action the party chooses to pass or take," she said in the speech at the closed door meeting of general body of the CPP soon after being reelected chairperson.

She hinted that she may take up the crucial post of the leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha saying "as a newly elected MP I intend to spend as much time as is possible in the House".

At the same time, she lashed out at the BJP-led government repeating several charges she had made during the election campaign such as "criminal neglect" of the country' defence and politicisation of armed forces.

Describing the government as "most corrupt", Gandhi said the party must insist on getting to the bottom of the "national disgrace" of the sugar imports from ISI-related Pakistan agency.

Meeting to sort out Bihar issue today

Amidst mounting pressure for withdrawal of support to Rabri Devi government in Bihar, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has convened a meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday of MPs and senior party leaders including state party chief. Though no agenda has been fixed for the meeting, party sources said the demand for withdrawal of support to the RJD government would figure prominently during the meeting.

The meeting is being held in the backdrop of the fresh infighting within the party in Bihar where a section of leaders, led by former state chief Sarfaraz Ahmed, demanding immediate dismissal of pradesh Congress chief Sadanand Singh in the aftermath of the party's debacle in the Lok Sabha polls in the state. The state Congress legislature party leader Ramashray Prasad Singh declined to comment on the demand for sacking of the PCC chief.