NEW DELHI: As Rahul Gandhi is finally getting ready to take over as Congress President , there is a sense of relief and suspense in party circles. The calculations of the Congress leaders are much more. Therefore, the Congress leadership feels the timing for Rahul Gandhi’s elevation could not have been more politically ripe. “When the 2013 Jaipur AICC session elected Rahul Gandhi as Congress vice-president, it was clearly done keeping in mind a road-map for the transition in leadership. The Congress camp also knows that Rahul Gandhi carries an image issue –– partly of his own making due to his once-fashionably projected “power-is-poison” brand, self-defeating reluctance, aloofness, apolitical experiments, dithering on decision-making etc.

Source: Times of India October 05, 2017 18:25 UTC