As Congress president Sonia Gandhi is yet to recover from her second bout of COVID-19, Congress working committee (CWC) member Ambika Soni on Monday hoisted the national flag at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters in the presence of former party chief Rahul Gandhi and other senior leaders.
The flag-hoisting by a Congress leader who is not a member of the Gandhi family, barely weeks before the party is scheduled to elect a new party president, is being seen for the political signal it sends about the party’s leadership issue.
As The Hindu had reported a week ago, Mr. Gandhi is said to be reluctant and to have argued with his colleagues that he doesn’t need to become the party chief to carry on his fight against the Narendra Modi government.
