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Rahul Gandhi looks all set to take 2019 election battle straight into BJP camp

The new Congress president led the party to its best showing in Gujarat in 32 years, taking the 2019 battle straight into the BJP camp.

RAHUL GANDHI, 47

In many ways, 2017 will be marked as a watershed in Rahul Gandhi's political career. The country witnessed his new avatar, relentless in public campaign, proactive on social media, and assertive in decision making. By the year end, he also took over as Congress president, an inevitable elevation that he had been avoiding for years. But this dramatic change had started with a failed experiment.

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