Letters: Rahul Gandhi's elevation

The Gandhi scion is a dynast by birth, but a democrat by conviction

Rahul Gandhi (pictured) is all set to don the mantle as Congress president. His pending elevation, confirmed by the Congress Working Committee, goes to vindicate Mani Shankar Aiyar’s candid confession that “there is nobody else in the Congress party to be its PM candidate”. On taking over the leadership from his mother who has been the longest-serving party president, Gandhi will become the face of the Congress. Given the Gandhi glitz, he will be the party’s undisputed leader. At a time when the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is working for a Congress-mukt Bharat, he has the Herculean task of reviving