After the electoral debacle, India’s largest opposition party, the Congress party, concluded a three-day brainstorming conference this month with announcements about newly formed councils, task forces and mass outreach programs to spread the party’s message across the country. The storm was set. The goal is to reinvigorate the party’s appeal ahead of national elections scheduled for 2024. But none of these plans tackled the main problem facing the party: its leader, Rahul Gandhi.
On paper, Mr Gandhi resigned as party president in 2019 after leading the Congress to a second straight national election defeat at the hands of Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, but in practice he is the party’s most visible face and The star remains the campaigner. The party is in no hurry to elect a new president. Mr. Gandhi’s mother Sonia Gandhi has served as the interim president for the past three years.
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After the electoral debacle, India’s largest opposition party, the Congress party, concluded a three-day brainstorming conference this month with announcements about newly formed councils, task forces and mass outreach programs to spread the party’s message across the country. The storm was set. The goal is to reinvigorate the party’s appeal ahead of national elections scheduled for 2024. But none of these plans tackled the main problem facing the party: its leader, Rahul Gandhi.
On paper, Mr Gandhi resigned as party president in 2019 after leading the Congress to a second straight national election defeat at the hands of Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, but in practice he is the party’s most visible face and The star remains the campaigner. The party is in no hurry to elect a new president. Mr. Gandhi’s mother Sonia Gandhi has served as the interim president for the past three years.