Rahul to decide his role in party
Congress party President Sonia Gandhi yesterday said it is for her son Rahul Gandhi to decide for himself on playing a larger role in the party.
"No one can take a decision on his behalf. He has to take a decision," she said in Parliament House after Hamid Ansari filed his nomination papers for vice presidential elections scheduled for August 7.
Sonia's remarks come in the backdrop of a growing chorus among senior Congress leaders like Digvijaya Singh and Law Minister Salman Khurshid that Rahul, the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi clan, should play a bigger role in the party's politics.
“Finally the time has come for him to assume a larger role… He has been confining himself to Youth Congress and the student wing of the party. He should come into the mainstream… This is the demand of all Congressmen. We all want him to start working proactively,” Digvijay Singh, party general secretary, had said earlier this week.
Rahul, 43, has, however, refused to comment on the speculation and has declined invite to join the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Rahul had led Congress in recent elections to state assembly in Uttar Pradesh but his party failed to do well and he accepted the blame for the party's poor performance.
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