| Point man of a fading vector, poor man, Rahul Gandhi is the grandson of Indira Gandhi, and son of murdered Rajiv Gandhi and his Italian-born widow Sonia. In his youth he was a shy lad who favoured cricket over politics, but after his great-grandfather, grandmother, and father served as India’s prime ministers in turn, his widowed mother took over as head of the Congress Party…then Rahul was the one who lost all to Mohdi and ended up a mere MP for the family constituency. Perhaps his more politically savvy sister made way for him because she preferred not to preside over the catastrophe… |
