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He has arrived: Rahul Gandhi, the new Twitter rage, is on cloud 9

Thanks to demonetisation and the 'faulty' GST coupled with a series of mistakes by the Narendra Modi dispensation, Rahul and his party are on cloud nine

Rahul Gandhi
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Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi at 112th PHD Chamber's Annual Session & Awards for Excellence 2017 in New Delhi (Photo: PTI)

Sunil Gatade
Rahul Gandhi's leadership has blossomed in the last two months.  Gone are the days when he was ridiculed as a “Pappu” by Modi bhakts. He is now a rage on Twitter giving Modi punches through one-liners. This author decodes why the Congress is suddenly on Cloud 9. 

“Blind man prays to god that he be given one eye, but receives two”, thus goes a Marathi saying, implying how dame luck smiles suddenly on someone sometimes. 

The saying aptly reflects the current mood of Rahul Gandhi and the Congress, badly battered in successive state polls since the ignominy of securing

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