New Delhi, December 27: Congress was on cloud nine with its rousing performance in the Lok Sabha elections in the middle of 2009 proving critics wrong but as the year drew to a close, the Telangana issue and rising prices had a sobering effect.
It was also a year when Rahul Gandhi came into his own as a leader as he successfully led the battle in key Uttar Pradesh and was part of the “trinity” of leaders along with his mother Sonia and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The gradual ascendance of Congress reached its peak in the May Lok Sabha polls with Sonia Gandhi shaking off the Opposition challenge to lead the party-led coalition to power for the second time in succession.
–PTI