From the Editor in Chief
The cover story examines whether the reinvented Rahul will be able to pull off victories in eight critical Assembly elections next year, and eventually resurrect his party's fortunes in the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
In 2005, we asked of Rahul Gandhi, newly elected MP from Amethi, and clearly his mother Congress president Sonia Gandhi's successor, 'Is he ready'? It was a curious echo of the question we had posed to his late father Rajiv Gandhi, another reluctant politician, in 1981, 'Will the cap fit'?
Both men have been well documented by India Today, with 13 covers on Rahul and 30 on
