New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi is making a concerted bid to return as the 87th president of the AICC or the All India Congress Committee. This was an advice offered to him way back in 2012 when Stephanie Cutter, a reputed political consultant who served as a deputy campaign manager in Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, had visited his 12, Tughlaq Crescent office-cum-residence.

After the completion of the assembly polls in West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Kerala, the AICC organisational polls are set to be announced and completed between June and August 2021. If the Congress does well in Kerala and becomes part of the winning alliance in Tamil Nadu and retains Puducherry, clamour for Rahul Gandhi ‘dobara’ would gain momentum.