An agenda for the new Congress president

Rahul Gandhi should concentrate on what he can do to promote education, enlightenment and economic prosperity across the board - and not only for the favoured few

Rahul Gandhi has an opportunity now of scripting a new narrative for India’s future if only he avoids walking into the current dispensation’s religion trap. He can’t compete with the Hindutva brigade whose unstated agenda of marginalising nearly 15 per cent of the population panders to the lumpen multitude. But the next Congress president can and must capitalise on representing the face of a dynamic new future.
 
He epitomises modernity without needing to bellow “Digital India” to prove he is modern. Education in international relations and development studies at prestigious British and American institutions has broadened his world view.