RAHUL Gandhi, newly named to the No.2 post in India's ruling Congress party, has delivered a powerful call for change to meet the aspirations of the nation's "young and impatient" population.
"We have to rethink and transform our system and the country," Gandhi, 42, told party members on Sunday as Congress ended a three-day brainstorming session in the northwestern city of Jaipur ahead of a general election next year.
Congress must listen to the voice of a "young and impatient" India to ensure they do not feel alienated from the political system, he said, a day after being unanimously voted party vice-president.
The scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, whose family has given India three prime ministers, is now second in the Congress hierarchy behind his mother, Sonia, who is president.
Rahul Gandhi's elevation represents a generational shift in Indian politics in which most of the leaders are over 60, while roughly half of the country's 1.2 billion population is under 25.
The party stopped short of naming him its candidate for prime minister, amid lingering uncertainty about his political talents and his hitherto apparent reluctance to assume a major political role.
In a speech drowned often by applause, Rahul Gandhi sought to dispel doubts about his political commitment, declaring the "Congress party is now my life".
"I will fight for the people of India with everything I have," he promised, adding he was "optimistic as we already have the building blocks for a better future".
He gave no hint of whether he wanted to be a candidate for prime minister.
But analysts said it was unlikely any other Congress leader would be fielded and his mother, who has long been seen grooming him for the post, was now expected to push him to take a bigger role in running the party.
"Congress has no other choice. It would be very difficult to name some other person because there would hardly be any consensus," said Sanjay Kumar, political analyst at the Centre for Study of Developing Societies.
The Nehru-Gandhi clan has ruled India for most of its post-independence history and many Congress members cannot conceive of the party without a Gandhi at the helm.
Newspapers predicted a showdown for the prime minister's job between Rahul Gandhi and hardline Hindu opponent Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief minister of western Gujarat state, in the 2014 election.
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