JAIPUR: Accepting the post of vice president in the Congress party, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday expressed his gratitude and thanked the party leaders at the CWC meeting.

Stating that he had "great experience", Rahul also told the meeting that he was confident that the party can "transform" the country. "He expressed his gratitude towards all the CWC members," Congress leader Vilas Muttemwar, who was present at the meeting, quoted Rahul as saying after his elevation.

"I have great experience...in the last eight years that I have worked with the party I have seen it is a great organization and together we will transform the country. It is a great party," said the 42-year-old scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, who was the party’s general secretary, before his elevation.

Rahul becomes the third vice president of the Congress after Arjun Singh under Rajiv Gandhi and Jitendra Prasada under Sitaram Kesri.

Meanwhile, celebrations broke out outside the venue of the conclave in Jaipur after the announcement, with numerous young workers setting off crackers, beating drums and shouting slogans.

As soon as the announcement to this effect was made at the venue by Congress chief spokesperson Janardan Dwivedi, thousands of NSUI (National Students’ Union of India), Youth Congress workers as well as partymen, who assembled at different places near the Birla auditorium, broke into celebrations.

A truck decorated with the posters and banners containing the young Congress leader’s pictures and flags of NSUI was brought outside the venue by NSUI leader Pawan Godara and his supporters ahead of the announcement.

A large number of college-going students, including girls, danced outside the venue to welcome the ruling party’s decision.

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