Congress will make a strong comeback : Mani Shankar

October 06, 2014 09:32

Senior Congressman Mani Shankar Aiyar has expressed hope that Congress Party will bounce back in due course of time once two of its top leaders -- Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi -- work out modalities of the party.

Refuting that the Congress' future was now long gone, the former union minister said the future was written in the party's history of 129 years that passed its baton from one generation to the other.

"We have mother who is Party president and son is the vice president and between the two they have to work out how the baton will be passed," Aiyar, who was in Melbourne to participate a public lecture organised by Australia India Institute (AII), said.

"In the past there has been smooth transition and the older generation retained some of the posts and newer generation which occupied the other posts," he said.

"We can't have a situation developed where everyone who have served the Congress is kicked out and those who have not

are brought into very important positions," he said.

He said there has to be an "intelligence mix" of both older and newer generation.

The mix was currently being worked out by Sonia Gandhi and her son and once they are ready with it the current hiccup of the Congress party will come to an end and we will move forward, he said.

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