Rahul, a chip of Rajiv, mulls a sabbatical from politics post poll debacle?

Rahul Gandhi, the scion of the Indian national congress wants to take a sabbatical after a grueling election campaign and a nasty drubbing in the Delhi assembly polls where it repeated the Andhra experience.It notched the same figure of sub zero seats in both Delhi and AP assemblies.

Rahul , who is a chip of his father Rajiv Gandhi, is also similar in his habits,conduct and also personal tastes and public life. Rajiv often vanished for days after major political events and elections He went into a cocoon after landslide winning of his first elections and bagging 415 seats in a parliament of 526 seats then. Rahul has been doing it often and his request now for leave shows that he has become more mature, though.

Party men defend his absence from Parliament on the first day of the budget session as an option to reflect upon recent events and the future course of the party. The party president refused to elaborate on her son's plans. Rahul Gandhi's move comes days after the Congress' decimation in assembly polls in Delhi, where it ruled for 15 years till 2013.

Party leaders said Rahul Gandhi wants to reinvent congress party with a new policy statement at the upcoming meeting of the All India Congress Committee, where it is speculated he could be either made a full time president with his ailing mother Sonia Gandhi seeking retirement.

Rumours have it that he would be in London and meet his girlfriend and rumble over the happenings of last few years. He is also likely to meet members of his think tank at his hideout, some JNU elements, young Turks of the congress party and also money bags to 'reinvent Congress and make it India and people friendly' again.

During his days abroad and also early days, Gandhi constantly had to shift schools, colleges, and also his accommodation, cars etc due to security concerns. He studied abroad under a pseudonym, his identity being known only to a select few including university officials and security agencies After obtaining degrees in international relations and development studies at the universities of Rollins and Cambridge, Gandhi worked at the Monitor Group, a management consulting firm in London, before establishing the Mumbai-based technology outsourcing firm, Backops Services Private Ltd . He has a team of 125 persons working in his company which handles only international projects and very few Indian programs.