Time is running out for Rahul - and the Congress Party

Former Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s discreet campaign that led to his eventual selection as the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)’s presidential candidate is being viewed in Congress circles, not just as a major achievement by a man who, on this occasion, deployed for himself the skills he had used for so many years in the service of the party, but also as a portent of things to come. One party functionary even described it as “the first challenge to Sonia Gandhi” in her 14-year long reign as Congress President.

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