It's time Rahul Gandhi staked his claim to lead the Congress and the nation
Rahul Gandhi's political candle has been burning from both sides. He has been at the middle of Indian politics for the last two years, while remaining at the sidelines. Is he ready to lead the Congress and the nation?
IT’S TIME Rahul Gandhi stakes his claim for which he has been grooming himself for the past few years – the opportunity to occupy 7 Race Course Road – the residence of the prime minister of India. The sooner we know if he can deliver the better it’s for the nation, for the Congress, and for Rahul and his supporters. As a country, we ought to move on rather than be caught in limbo – waiting for Rahul’s education and trial by opposition to be through. 
Thus, still young, and lack of experience, are the two major realities that opposition parties and even coalition partners will throw at the Congress and voters – when the time comes to support his candidature. How much support Rahul Gandhi can garner is also a matter of where India and the present government find themselves in the overall national and global picture. India needs a leadership that’s energetic and unshackled by ideology and politics of vote bank – leaders who can speak the language and read the minds of our increasingly impatient and unafraid youth and professionals. One can term some of Rahul’s skirmishes with Mayawati as naïve and a sign of youthful exuberance. Rahul seems to wear his politics on his sleeve – but so do our youth – they want action – they want dust to be flying and walls broken down – not studied silence and consensus while bowing to coalition survival. It’s Rahul’s empathetic nature that has led him to embark on infusing fresh blood into Congress’ party cadres across the country. He is trying to bring merit into political selection and party organization. While one can snigger: ‘What about starting from the top?’, Rahul’s endevour to turn the Congress inside-out, disturbing decades-old sycophantic culture, is the very spark that has India’s youth eating out his hands - at least that's would our media would have us believe. Despite Rahul Gandhi’s relative inexperience, his sense and sensibility of politics is transparent. In most things important, he has followed the liberal-centrist approach while handling issues and reacting to events. India needs this mindset. This is not the time for Indian decision making to veer too much to the right or too much to the left. The country needs a solid run of 20 years of serious overhauling and systemic institutional changes – beginning with education. And if this takes the most prestigious surname in the country to do it – so be it. Along with his surname, Rahul has a killer combination – charm, curiosity, and a sense of urgency – a genetic combination respected by our entire rural-urban populace – none less by US President Barack Obama, who often sounds bugle warning citing these very ingredients while warning that the Indians are out there waiting to snatch jobs and college seats. This was the good news. The bad news is that Rahul Gandhi will have to do a few more years of street fighting, visiting villages and hospitals, and provoking political opponents – because it’s likely that the Congress coalition could be kicked out in 2014 when the next General Elections take place. By 2019, the time when the next General Elections come around, Rahul would have gathered more experience, would have a little less but graying hair, and would no longer be the ‘child bride’ he is considered today in Indian politics. Perhaps, then, an octogenarian Keralite leftist will no longer call him an "Amul Baby".
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I often wonder at the IQ levels of supporters of Rahul Gandhi. And their supporters always use words like "stake claim" "forward the legacy" and this completely shows their slavish and sycophantic mindset. By using such words we are clearly creating a separate class in India i.e. political class. Earlier brahmins used to misuse their so called divine status, but Indians didn't do anything. But now we will never allow nutcases and dubiously educatedlike Rahul Gandhi to lead nation. He may lead congress, for they deserve to be led by someone like him. We will not allow to form another class in modern India which will dictate terms on us. Tomorrow your ilks would ask son of Rahul Gandhi to stake claim to lead nation. Are we idiots to allow these fake gandhis to lead nation just because they have a surname Gandhi? Rahul Gadhi has never ever presented his views on the burning questions, has never participated in parliamentary debates, in last 2 years he didn't even ask 2 questions and still his slaves have shamelessness to say that he must stake claim to lead nation. He can lead congress asses only and not the 120 crore Indians
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