Parivar takes control of the Congress Party

THE GRAND old party of India cannot do without the Gandhis. Just as it was in 1998, the Congress is facing an existential crisis due to the ' NaMo challenge' and the rise of aam aadmi . What else but the Nehru- Gandhi aura can save the party from being pushed into oblivion? So, it has to be Rahul, the Gandhi scion, on whom the party is falling back for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. It is the repeat of history of sorts: in 1998, it was Rahul's mother Sonia Gandhi who led the Congress charge. True, the Congress was out of power till 2004 and the country had a BJP government under Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

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