Rahul Gandhi’s Promotion as Congress President Should Not be Judged by Outsiders: Pranab Mukherjee in Book

New Delhi, September 16: Rahul Gandhi's promotion as the president of Congress should not be judged by outsiders as a travesty of democracy, former president Pranab Mukherjee said to media on Monday.

Updated: October 16, 2017 8:57 PM IST

By India.com News Desk

Rahul Gandhi's Promotion as Congress President Should Not be Judged by Outsiders: Pranab Mukherjee in Book
Rahul Gandhi with Former President Pranab Mukherjee. (Photo Courtesy: Twitter)

New Delhi, September 16: Rahul Gandhi’s promotion as the president of Congress should not be judged by outsiders as a travesty of democracy, former president Pranab Mukherjee said to media on Monday. Mukherjee also praised Rahul Gandhi as a “young man” with the ability “to respond to change, to adapt, to adjust.”

Highlights

  • Last week Congress president Sonia Gandhi indicated that the elevation of Rahul Gandhi as the party president could be done "soon".
  • Most of the Congress leaders admit that Rahul Gandhi will be elected unopposed.

“These qualities in Rahul is a crucial trait,” he said, citing Mr Gandhi’s grandmother Indira and father Raji Gandhi, both former prime ministers, to illustrate his point.

“A leader is not made, Smt Indira Gandhi was not readily made by anybody like a Madame Tussauds was statue…circumstances threw her leadership, similarly circumstances threw leadership of Rajiv Gandhi,” Mukherjee said to media.

Rahul’s elevation to the party’s top post is to take place in next few weeks. Most of the Congress leaders admit that Rahul Gandhi will be elected unopposed because there is no one in the party who would like to run against him.

Last week Congress president Sonia Gandhi indicated that the elevation of Rahul Gandhi as the party president could be done “soon”.

“Soon it will be done,” she said when asked by reporters at a function here as to when Rahul Gandhi, who is at present the vice president of the party, will be elevated.

Earlier in the day, the Uttarakhand BJP said the State Congress resolution seeking Mr. Gandhi’s elevation was part of its “Beta Bachao, Beta Banao” campaign to keep internal democracy away.

Terming those seeking Mr. Gandhi’s elevation as his “courtiers”, BJP media in-charge Devendra Bhasin said they were saying this to just please their boss.

(With inputs from PTI)

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