Rahul Gandhi in command

It is a foregone conclusion that Rahul Gandhi has taken charge as President of the Congress Party. It had been expected since he joined active Congress party politics. Congress Party is a grand old party of 132 years and Rahul is the sixth party President from Nehru-Gandhi family. Undoubtedly, Congress has been the premier political party of the nation for more than 60 years. It has also led the freedom struggle from the front. Most of Congress leaders sacrificed everything for the freedom of the nation. Nehru-Gandhi family's sacrifice for the nation is immeasurable. India's first Prime Minister late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru under the leadership of the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi fought for the freedom of the country from the front. Nehru spent most of his youthful years behind the prison for the Independence of the country. His role in throwing out British imperialism is immortal. When India got freedom in 1947 on August 15, Mahatma Gandhi handed over the responsibility of the country to Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru to run its administration. Mahatma Gandhi said,"The nation is safe in the hands of Nehru." Pandit Nehru was elected the first Prime Minister of the country. Not only Nehru his daughter late Indira Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi also became Prime Ministers of the nation. These were the days when Congress was the main and the strongest political party in the country. After Indira and Rajiv, Sonia Gandhi took charge of the party. Sonia had also played a pivotal role in bringing the Congress back to power for 10 years when it won Lok Sabha elections in 2004 under her leadership. But after the worst-ever defeat of the Congress Party in 2014 Lok Sabha elections, it has become weaker and weaker. It is presently passing through its worst days. It gets one defeat after another. It is losing one state after another. Congress party's organizational set up is in disarray all over the country. It is gasping for breath. The most challenging task before Rahul Gandhi is to revive the Congress party units from state capital to the village level. The ruling BJP is its formidable rival under the charismatic leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. BJP under PM Modi’s leadership is in its heydays. So, becoming President of the Congress party at this juncture when it is passing through its worst-ever days, it is the toughest task before Rahul Gandhi to infuse confidence in the party cadre to fight BJP in the Lok Sabha elections 2019. The first and foremost task before him after taking full charge of the Congress Party is to instill life in the party units in the Hindi heartland states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. These two are the biggest states and politically most important ones. In these two states, Congress organization units at all levels appear to be dead. And Until and unless the party is revived in these two states, it cannot get power at the Centre. Rahul Gandhi succeeds Sonia Gandhi, who led the party for the last 19 years. Rahul Gandhi entered electoral politics in 2004. He was appointed as the party general secretary in 2007 and was elevated as its vice president in January 2013.