My role is now to retire: Sonia Gandhi
A day before her son Rahul Gandhi takes over as President of India's main opposition Congress party, Sonia Gandhi yesterday said that “my role is to retire”, fuelling speculations about her future role in the party.
She did not elaborate on her one-line comment to the media outside parliament here as the winter session began. But it was enough to set the political circles here abuzz.
However, Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala took to Twitter to set at rest speculations by saying that Sonia Gandhi has retired from the post of party president and not from politics.
“Smt Sonia Gandhi has retired as President of Indian National Congress and not from politics. Her blessings, wisdom and innate commitment to Congress ideology shall always be our guiding light,” Surjewala said in his post.
Sonia, who turned 71 last week, has been the longest-serving president of the party after she was elected to the post in 1998.
Congress on Monday named 47-year-old Rahul as its new president, more than four years after he took over as the party's vice-president in January 2013. Ends
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