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Sonia says only Rahul to decide on his larger role
Wednesday July 18, 2012 08:22:01 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Amid
rising voices within the Congress urging Rahul Gandhi to join the
UPA government, party president Sonia Gandhi Wednesday said it was
only for her son and party general secretary to decide on taking
up a bigger role.
"No one can take a decision on his behalf. He has to take a
decision," Sonia Gandhi told reporters in parliament house.
She was accompanying United Progressive Alliance (UPA's) vice
presidential candidate M. Hamid Ansari who filed his nomination
papers for a second five-year term.
The remarks from the Congress chief came as Congress leaders in
recent days have urged Rahul Gandhi to move to the party's
mainstream amid growing clamour for projecting him as prime
ministerial candidate in the next Lok Sabha polls, likely in 2014.
Congress leader Digvijay Singh, one of the vociferous proponents
of Rahul Gandhi taking up the top job, Wednesday also expressed
confidence that he would lead the party at "an appropriate time".
"Certainly, I am quite confident that Rahul Gandhi has all the
potential and ability to not only perform but also to lead the
party at an appropriate time," Digvijay Singh told reporters at
the same event.
Digvijay Singh was pointedly asked if Rahul Gandhi would be
projected as the next prime ministerial candidate of the Congress.
He said the issue was for the party to decide and "I can't say
anything on it".
He, however, said that Sonia Gandhi would lead the Congress in the
next election elections. "There is no doubt about it. We are
working as a team in which Rahul will be an important part."
The voices for Rahul Gandhi's bigger role grew louder after Law
and Justice Minister Salman Khurshid in a newspaper interview said
the ruling party was yet to get any ideological direction from
him.
"Until now, we have only seen cameos of his thought and ideas like
democratising elections to the Youth Congress. But he has not
weaved all of this into a grand announcement. This is a period of
waiting," Khurshid said.
The comments sparked a row forcing him to clarify that he had
urged "the young and new leadership of our party to prepare
themselves to lead from the front, to prepare themselves to take
on the challenge of our times".
Earlier last month, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna
suggested that Rahul Gandhi should join the government as Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh had already invited him and that
invitation still stands.
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