Amid a huge banner that read “We want Rahul Gandhi as President,” several Congress leaders at Sunday’s Mehangai Par Halla Bol rally at the Ramlila Maidan reiterated their faith in the former party chief’s leadership abilities.
As soon as Mr. Gandhi came on the stage, the crowd gave him a standing ovation and raised slogans of “Rahul Gandhi Zindabad”.
Though none of the senior leaders who spoke from the dais before Mr. Gandhi directly referred to the upcoming presidential elections, many stressed that only Mr. Gandhi has been taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi ‘fearlessly’ for the past eight years.