Rahul Gandhi must be projected as the future Uttar Pradesh chief minister, new Congress strategist Prashant Kishor has reportedly advised. Not an original idea. Before the 2012 UP elections there was a similar suggestion which was rejected and the proposal will probably be dismissed again. Yet it is an idea whose time has come.
Family-worshipping Congressmen may fulminate that the heir apparent is being downsized, but Rahul Gandhi’s claim to be a national leader remains iffy. In Parliament, he still hasn’t really displayed any outstanding passion. Instead he seems to have one foot out of the door and there’s a lack of any visible persistence for a cause. Not even the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha, he seems to Read More
