Rahul not reluctant to take over as Cong president: Digvijaya Singh

20 Sep 2016 Evaluate

Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has said that Rahul Gandhi is not reluctant to take over as Congress president and his sister Priyanka cannot be forced into active politics, though most of the party workers want her to do so. The party General Secretary said that Rahul is not reluctant. It's a question of timing. Let him choose his own timing. In politics, timing is important. So, let the leadership decide on its own timing. ‘It should happen, but we have to allow him to choose his timing,’ the two-time Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh said when asked if Rahul would be taking over as Congress president this year.

Singh said that ‘as far as Priyanka Gandhi is concerned, she is not yet in politics... can't really force her to come into politics, it's her own personal decision and we should respect that’. He said that ‘Most of the ‘Congress people’ want her to come into politics, and there is no doubt about it, but the actual timing has to be decided by her, not ‘by us’’.

Asked about his remark that there was a need for a major surgery in Congress in the wake of disappointing results in the Assembly polls in four states earlier this year, he said there are major challenges in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Goa, which will go to polls next year. He said that ‘in the meantime (after he made the suggestion), Congress president fell ill...unwell. So, changes have to come, there is no doubt about it. Timing has to be decided by Congress president and vice-president. Every one feels that changes have to be made. They are long overdue. Final decision has to be taken by the Congress president’.

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