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1st LD Writethru: India's Nehru-Gandhi scion expected to become Congress chief next month

Xinhua, March 3, 2015 Adjust font size:

India's Nehru-Gandhi scion Rahul Gandhi may take over the reins of Congress in April, at a party conclave to be held in Jaipur of western India, according to local newspaper Times of India online Tuesday.

Congress is planning to call a national session between March 28 and April 15, when Parliament will be in recess, to secure the party's support to the generational transition of power of the country's oldest political party, which was badly battered in last year's general election, said the newspaper.

Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi has been asking her son to take over power as soon as possible. Endi