India, Sept. 12 -- Senior Congress leader and former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat on Saturday refuted reports of his resignation from party posts, saying he had not stepped down, as inferred from his social media post. Rawat clarified that he would be willing to resign if Enforcement Directorate (ED) action against his personal assistant Chandan Singh Jeena would lead to the weakening of Congress' stand against corruption.

In a social media post, Rawat said Congress membership runs through his "blood and bones", while calling the recent ED searches in Dehradun as a "hypocritical spectacle".

Harish Rawat's offered to resign after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday conducted raids on the premises of Chandan Singh Jeen...