Rahul, whose father, grandmother and great-grandfather all served as prime minister, has been her deputy since 2013 and led the campaign for the last general election. He will officially take over on Saturday at a ceremony in New Delhi.
Congress party workers let off firecrackers and cheered as they celebrated the announcement. “I have waited for this day for so many years. My joy knows no bounds,” said Prem Chowdhury, a long-time party member and former municipal councillor. Rahul was strongly criticised for a lacklustre campaign for the 2014 general election, in which Congress recorded its worst-ever showing and lost power to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. Since the national election defeat, the party has lost polls in many states to the BJP, exposing him to further criticism. But few inside the party have been willing publicly to criticise the family that has been at its helm for generations.
Published in Daily Times, December 12th 2017.
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