Rahul Gandhi elected party chief

Rahul Gandhi has been elected unopposed as Congress president, the party’s central election authority head Mullappally Ramachandran announced on Monday.

Rahul Gandhi will collect the certificate formally declaring his ascension to the



post on December 16, he said.

The 47-year-old scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family was the lone candidate in the fray.

Rahul Gandhi succeeds his mother Sonia Gandhi, who remained in the post for 19 years.