Elevating Rahul Gandhi is the only strategy Congress has to win elections

The Congress wants an image makeover for Rahul Gandhi. They party believes the first step would be to elevate him as party president.

The Congress is likely to urge its vice president Rahul Gandhi to take complete control over the party. Rahul, who will be addressing the Congress MPs for the first time after the big Uttar Pradesh debacle is likely to be urged to take over the mantle completely.

The Congress feels that there is no point in dragging the issue and Rahul must not waste time anymore. Instead, he should take over the party, the Congress MPs would urge him.

The meeting to be held on Tuesday would see the Congress chalking out a strategy for the upcoming elections in Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka. The focus would however largely be on the 2019 elections. The Congress wants Rahul to be at the helm, but also insists that the team around him be cleaned up.

The Congress had devised a strategy to re-brand Rahul. While the first part of the plan was for him to take over as the president of the party, the other was to clean the team around him.

Many in the Congress feel that the older members around Rahul should be dropped. He should rope in the younger leaders such as Jyotiraditya Scindia and Sachin Pilot instead.

Only if a young team is formed will there be enthusiasm, many Congress leaders feel. The older team has been tested over and over again. The team has failed repeatedly. It may be recalled that an application was also filed with the Guinness Book of World Records to include the name of Rahul for losing the most number of elections.

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