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India’s Rahul Gandhi Finally to be Congress President

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Dec 06, 2017
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At last the years of waiting are over. Rahul Gandhi, the 47-year old “pop up” vice president of India’s Congress Party, is being elected – anointed would be more accurate – as the party’s president.

Nominations for the post closed on Dec. 4 with no rival candidate emerging and generations of top Congress politicians gathered in the party’s headquarters t…

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