A change of guard is likely to take place in the Congress Party, with senior leader Jairam Ramesh confirming that vice president Rahul Gandhi will take over from his mother Sonia Gandhi in 2015.
“If you are asking me whether Mr. Rahul Gandhi will become Congress president in 2015, the answer is most definitely, most probably. When in 2015, I can’t say. That depends on him, depends on the Congress President, it depends on senior leaders and many factors. But 2015, it is reasonable to assume that he will take over the top job,” Ramesh told media persons here today.
“One thing is very clear that you are seeing a new Mr. Rahul Gandhi in parliament and outside parliament and this Mr.Gandhi will continue, he will continue to raise issues that are of interest to all sections of society – farmers’ issues, youth issues, minority issues, womens’ issues, issues of the middle class and net neutrality. All these issues, he has raised, he will continue to raise that,” he added.
Rahul, who has been rather vocal in parliament and the media about farmers’ issues and the Amethi Food Park, had returned in March from a 57-day-long sabbatical.
Post his return, the Congress vice-president had taken pot-shots at the NDA Government, saying it was a suit-boot ki sarkaar’ and was working only for five or six businessmen in the country.
He had also undertaken a Kisan padyatra in Telangana and fired salvos at the NDA Government over the scrapping of the food park in Amethi, as ‘politics of revenge’.
He had yesterday appealed to the Centre to work for the welfare of farmers, labourers and the poor, while on a tour of his parliamentary constituency Amethi.(ANI)