New Delhi: Congress general secretary Ajay Maken resigns from his post ashe fails to win from the Sadar Bazar seat in the Delhi Assembly polls, sources said.

Maken, who was the party’s face for the Delhi polls, is locked in a tough three-way battle for the seat against the BJP and AAP candidates.

Sources in the party said that Maken is clear in his mind that he would not continue as an AICC general secretary or the head of its Communications Department as he loses his Assembly seat. He is learnt to have discussed the matter with his close party colleagues.

A pre-poll survey report had recently suggested that he was the third favourite in the race for the Sadar Bazar seat and was the preferred choice of only 11 per cent of the voters there.

Maken was made AICC general secretary and the chairman of its Communications Department in June, 2013, soon after he had resigned as the Union Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation.

He was made the Campaign Committee Chief for the Delhi polls with three-time former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s role having been curtailed by the party.