The leader of India’s main opposition party Congress, Sonia Gandhi, has retired as the party chief a day before her son Rahul Gandhi replaces her, Indian media reported Friday. The leader has stepped down from her position as the party president after her son was elected unopposed and will take charge as the new chief Saturday. Sonia, 71, entered politics in 1994, a few years after her husband former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated. “I hereby declare Shri Rahul Gandhi elected as the president of the Indian National Congress,” he told reporters outside the Congress headquarters in New Delhi on Monday. Congress party workers let off firecrackers and cheered as they celebrated the announcement.

Source: Pakistan Today December 15, 2017 12:11 UTC