16 December,2017 11:44 AM IST | New Delhi | PTI
Rahul Gandhi today took charge as the president of Congress in the presence of the 132-year-old party's top brass and his family members
Rahul Gandhi today took charge as the president of Congress in the presence of the 132-year-old party's top brass and his family members.
Rahul Gandhi
The Congress' central election authority (CEA) handed him over the certificate of his elevation to the top post during a grand event held at the lawns of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters here. 47-year-old Rahul Gandhi was handed over the certificate in the presence of his mother and predecessor Sonia Gandhi, sister Priyanka Gandhi-Vadra and her husband Robert Vadra, former prime minister Manmohan Singh and other senior party leaders.
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While handing over the certificate, CEA chairman Mullappally Ramachandran termed the moment as "historic". There was chaos outside the AICC headquarters where the Congress workers gathered in large numbers for the event, making it difficult even for the senior party leaders to enter the venue.
Meanwhile, parts of Lutyens' Delhi were dotted with posters hailing Rahul Gandhi's ascension with some of them describing the development as the beginning of a New India. Rahul Gandhi succeeds Sonia Gandhi, who led the party for the last 19 years. Rahul Gandhi entered electoral politics in 2004. He was appointed as the party general secretary in 2007 and was elevated as its vice president in January 2013.
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