Edited By: Nitya Thirumalai
Last Updated: February 25, 2023, 15:33 IST
If Sonia Gandhi doesn’t contest from Rae Bareli in 2024, it may open up the chance of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra taking the electoral plunge or Rahul Gandhi returning to UP after the crushing defeat from Amethi in 2019. (PTI/File)
Just as future pulled her into politics, it has pushed her to proceed in it regardless of a long-harboured need for retirement. Any retirement for the former Congress chief, nevertheless, should be phased and will not be absolute, particularly with the 2024 Lok Sabha elections approaching
Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi obtained a standing ovation as she stood as much as communicate at the eighty fifth plenary session of the occasion following an emotional quick movie on her 20-year tenure as occasion chief and how she sacrificed the prime minister place in 2004.
The scenes beg some massive questions. Is it time for one other sacrifice? Will Sonia not contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections? Is it curtains for Sonia Gandhi as an lively politician?
“I am glad that my innings ended with the Bharat Jodo yatra,” she ominously mentioned at the finish of her speech at the plenary session.
The assertion may be interpreted in two methods. First, she could possibly be referring to the finish of her innings as the Congress president. Or second, she could possibly be hinting that she won’t be contesting the 2024 General Elections from Rae Bareli. But who if not Sonia? This may open up the chance of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra taking the electoral plunge or Rahul Gandhi returning to UP after the crushing defeat from Amethi in 2019.
“It meant her innings as president ended, but it seemed like a goodbye speech. She will continue to be around for us,” Congress chief Sandeep Dikshit informed News18.
When the media had requested Sonia Gandhi how she felt at being succeeded by Mallikarjun Kharge, she responded with a broad smile and mentioned: “This is what I have been waiting for for a long time.”
Priyanka Gandhi has typically said that her mom would ideally need to retire and retreat to a cottage she had constructed close to Shimla. But simply as future pulled Sonia Gandhi into politics, it pushed her to proceed after her son Rahul Gandhi resigned from the publish following the defeat in 2019 elections. Sonia was interim president once more.
But this time, it could be simpler for Sonia Gandhi to retire. One, there’s a occasion president in place. Two, after the Bharat Jodo yatra, it’s clear that Rahul Gandhi will likely be the fulcrum of the occasion’s technique in 2024.
However, any retirement plan put into movement must be in phases. Sonia remains to be the chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) led by the Congress, and as 2024 approaches, the expectation and aptitude to barter alliances, notably with leaders like Mamata Banerjee, rests on her shoulders.
Any retirement plan may even not be absolute as Sonia Gandhi, together with son Rahul, have been made everlasting members of the Congress Working Committee (CWC). This means she is going to proceed to have some form of grip over the occasion. So whereas it could look like a farewell speech, it is probably not goodbye simply but for Sonia Gandhi.
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