New Delhi: Nehru-Gandhi scion and Lok Sabha MP from Amethi, Rahul Gandhi is likely to be appointed as Congress General Secretary, well ahead of the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, slated for early next year.
The move is being contemplated to rejuvenate the party in UP, the biggest state if one goes in political terms.
According to sources at the Congress party headquarters - 24 Akbar Road - after a long wait, the decks have been cleared for 'enthroning' Rahul.
But, unlike other General-Secretaries, Rahul’s office would be at 10 Janpath, which is next to 24 Akbar Road, for "security reasons".
They added that "confidential and competent" staff is being looked for from the AICC workforce to help Rahul in carrying out his job responsibilities as party General-Secretary.
They said that Rahul’s name is included in the list of next reshuffle at the AICC Headquarters, slated to take place "very soon".
Presently in his first term as a Lok Sabha MP, Rahul has long been tipped for greater responsibilities in the party, but he has always appeared reluctant to accept any larger role for himself, as he has often said that he wants to learn politics "brick by brick".
In his maiden AICC Plenary Session speech at Hyderabad, Rahul outrightly rejected calls for leading the party, saying: "You know the difference between a true leader and a neta (politician). You are supposed to know that a leadership cannot be created. It has to be built slowly, brick by brick. There is no fasttrack to success in creating leaders. I believe, while looking into the future, our party has a huge opportunity."
Only less than a week ago, in the wake of OBC reservation controversy, the Congress party’s heir apparent was shifted from the Parliamentary Standing Committee of the Home Ministry to the panel attached the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry.
Sources said that his request was granted after he wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee in this connection when the standing committees were being reconstituted recently.
Rahul has evinced keen interest in matters relating to education. His first speech in the Lok Sabha was on this issue. He has also been consulting several NGOs working in this field for improving the educational facilities in his constituency Amethi.
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