New Delhi: After a series of massive electoral losses with the latest being the complete wipeout of the Congress in Delhi Asembly elections, party vice president Rahul Gandhi is likely to take leave from party work and skip major part of the Budget session that starts on Monday. He may lead Congress's agitation against Land Acquisition Bill on February 25. He did not attend the President's joint address to Parliament and will not be in the House when Railway and Union budgets are presented.
Rahul's move comes ahead of the crucial All India Congress Committee session expected in April. He has desired to reflect upon "recent events" and the future course of the party.
According to sources, he believes that the direction that the party adopts at the upcoming AICC session will be of crucial importance for its future and he wishes to prepare for it.
Rahul has been "granted a leave of absence for a few weeks after which he will return and resume his active participation in the affairs of the Congress party", Congress sources added.
Congress has been performing very badly in elections, which started with defeats in states elections in 2013, followed by Lok Sabha elections in 2014 and continued in the Assembly elections in various states including Delhi recently.
The debacle in Delhi, where Congress failed to get even one seat in the 70-member House, was the most stunning as the party had ruled the state for 15 years till December 2013.
The AICC session is expected in early April and media reports have suggested that Rahul could be made the party chief on that occasion.
(With PTI inputs)
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