New Delhi: The media hailed Rahul Gandhi as the ‘Yuvraj’ (Singh) of politics on Tuesday and the Congress lapped up the opportunity to mix the euphoria over the T20 World Cup victory with politics to project the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family as a captain who would “win the next big match.”
A day after it named Rahul Gandhi as the AICC General Secretary, the Congress joined in the celebration of ‘youth power’, saying what Dhoni and his men did for Indian cricket, Rahul Gandhi will do for the party.
“The spirit of youth got reflected yesterday when Rahul Gandhi was assigned important responsibilities in the party and Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his youth team garnered a magnificent victory to India a few hours later,” AICC spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said.
“I have no doubt that Rahul Gandhi will return the compliment by decisively winning the next big match,” he said, amid speculation that Rahul's induction into the AICC as its General Secretary and into the CWC as its member is a sign there could be readying for snap polls if the standoff between the UPA Government and the Left parties over the Indo-US Nuke deal is not resolved.
Though it was just a coincidence, the recast of the AICC Secretariat with many young leaders came on a day when the young players of the Team India led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni lifted the maiden T-20 World Cup.
In the reshuffle, effected by party chairperson Sonia Gandhi after a gap of nearly three years, Rahul was also made a member of a new think-tank group constituted to look into future challenges of the party. He was also included into the Publicity and Publication Committee.
Besides Rahul, the other young leaders who have found places in the AICC secretariat include Ajay Maken, Sandeep Dikshit, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Priya Dutt, Milind Deora, Sachin Pilot and
Jitin Prasad.
(With UNI inputs)
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