With the Congress’ Vishwajeet Kadam losing the Pune Lok Sabha seat — a traditional bastion — to the BJP’s Anil Shirole with a record 3.15 lakh margin, the blame game within the party has assumed gargantuan proportions.

A Congress meeting attended by the city brass — including city president Abhay Chhajed, Deputy President and former mayor Deepak Mankar, MLC Mohan Joshi and Kadam — last morning saw a call go up for Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan’s resignation. The meeting’s attendees unanimously agreed that the CM must take responsibility for the Congress’ decimation in city and the state — where it won just two seats — and step down.