Rahul Gandhi Leaves For Europe, Set To Miss Key Congress Meeting
NDTV
Thursday meeting to discuss Congress's internal elections for new party chief, and its much-touted 'Bharat Jodo Yatra'
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is learnt to have left for a foreign trip again — a personal visit to Europe — and is expected to return on Sunday, ahead of the Presidential elections and the monsoon session of Parliament.
His frequent visits abroad — sometimes at key political moments — have led to questions about how committed Rahul Gandhi is about taking up a leadership role, especially when the Congress has been stunted by a series of losses over the past few years. This visit comes even as the party barely managed to stop defections in Goa.
No comments were immediately available from the Congress.
The party is scheduled to have a meeting on Thursday about its own presidential elections too, and Rahul Gandhi is set to miss that meeting. The Congress president's post is currently held by Sonia Gandhi after Rahul Gandhi resigned following the 2019 Lok Sabha poll loss. Whether or not Rahul Gandhi will contest for the post is not yet clear.
