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Saudi- After six weeks India wonders where Rahul Gandhi might be
(MENAFN- Arab News) NEW DELHI: India's opposition Congress party is finding it hard to defend a long holiday taken by its Vice President Rahul Gandhi and some seniors in the party are questioning whether the scion of the country's most famous family is interested in politics.
Gandhi a 44-year-old bachelor parliamentarian took a leave of absence starting in late February and is now said to be returning to work later this month. There is no word where he might be.
His vanishing act has spawned a series of tongue-in-cheek comments about his choice of holiday spot and what he might be doing and 'missing' posters have been pasted on walls in his rural constituency.
Jokes aside Gandhi's decision to go on a holiday at the start of a parliamentary session at a time when Congress was attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi over land policy has led to doubts about his commitment to politics.
Senior Congress members who normally pride themselves on displays of loyalty to the great grandson of India's first prime minister are beginning to openly express frustration.
'He's entitled to have a leave for a holiday but the timing was wrong because we had the budget session going on and the issue of land acquisition was to be debated he could have gone when there was a recess' party leader Digvijaya Singh said.
Singh who this week said Gandhi would be back in time to lead a farmers' rally on April 19 was referring to Modi's attempt to make it easier for industry to acquire land a policy that Congress has called anti-farmer.
While Gandhi has been away his mother party president Sonia Gandhi has taken full-time charge leading a rally and visiting villages to protest against the land law.
In February Congress said Rahul Gandhi needed time off to reflect on electoral defeats and plot the future of the party.
Many Congress party members want Gandhi to take over from his mother despite having led the party to its worst ever election defeat last year when he was chief campaigner against Modi.
Gandhi a 44-year-old bachelor parliamentarian took a leave of absence starting in late February and is now said to be returning to work later this month. There is no word where he might be.
His vanishing act has spawned a series of tongue-in-cheek comments about his choice of holiday spot and what he might be doing and 'missing' posters have been pasted on walls in his rural constituency.
Jokes aside Gandhi's decision to go on a holiday at the start of a parliamentary session at a time when Congress was attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi over land policy has led to doubts about his commitment to politics.
Senior Congress members who normally pride themselves on displays of loyalty to the great grandson of India's first prime minister are beginning to openly express frustration.
'He's entitled to have a leave for a holiday but the timing was wrong because we had the budget session going on and the issue of land acquisition was to be debated he could have gone when there was a recess' party leader Digvijaya Singh said.
Singh who this week said Gandhi would be back in time to lead a farmers' rally on April 19 was referring to Modi's attempt to make it easier for industry to acquire land a policy that Congress has called anti-farmer.
While Gandhi has been away his mother party president Sonia Gandhi has taken full-time charge leading a rally and visiting villages to protest against the land law.
In February Congress said Rahul Gandhi needed time off to reflect on electoral defeats and plot the future of the party.
Many Congress party members want Gandhi to take over from his mother despite having led the party to its worst ever election defeat last year when he was chief campaigner against Modi.
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