New CWC: Rahul Gandhi in saddle as Congress gets into election mode

The constitution of the CWC represents the final act in the long play of Rahul Gandhi's take over of the Congress party

In January 2013, at the AICC session in Jaipur, Rahul Gandhi was elevated to the position of Vice President of the Indian National Congress. In a much-anticipated speech delivered at the session, he delivered his firebrand oratory on ‘power is poison’.

In the five years that have passed since, Congress watchers may have been forgiven if they were frustrated by two recurring arguments made by Congress insiders, off-the-record. One was that Rahul Gandhi was a reluctant politician and the second concerned rumours of his impending take-over of the Congress party, replacing his mother, Sonia Gandhi as Congress president.

Incidentally, Sonia