India

Rahul Gandhi will NOT join cabinet

May 22, 2009, 3:58 pm
According to PM

PM Manmohan Singh on Friday cleared that Rahul Gandhi is not keen on joining his government.

“Rahul Gandhi has so far not agreed to join government, but I have not given up hope,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said shortly after the swearing-in ceremony.

Meanwhile, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi also cleared that strengthening the party was Rahul Gandhi’s main responsibility.

Rahul Gandhi attended the ceremony, sitting along with his sister Priyanka Gandhi and her husband Robert Vadra. .

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had earlier stated that he was keen on having Rahul in his ministerial team but the AICC General Secretary has been reluctant to take up a position in the cabinet and voiced preference for party work.

“I have made up my mind and you will soon come to know about it,” said Rahul. He insisted that he would like to concentrate on strengthening the front organisations of the party for which he had drawn up crucial plans.

The ministers sworn in today did not include any of the young faces from the so called “Rahul Brigade” but they are expected to be inducted in the next Cabinet expansion.