Meerut:

on Sunday

Local Congress leaders celebrated the birthday of Rahul Gandhiby cutting a 5kg cake and making an appeal to party president Sonia Gandhi to hand over the reins of the party to her son.In an interesting appeal, district vice president of the party, Mohd Imran, said that Sonia should hand over the party president post to Rahul as “she is not keeping well and travels to foreign countries for her treatment quite often.”The party leaders celebrated the Rahul’s birthday with leprosy-affected children and also distributed sweets and cakes among them.“We wish for the long life of Rahul Gandhi. We also want that he becomes the prime minister after 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Also, we wish that Sonia Gandhi hands over the responsibility of party president’s seat to Rahul as his birthday gift. She is not keeping well and has to go to foreign countries for her treatment quite often,” Imran said.The Congress leaders also demanded that Priyanka Gandhi be given the power to host the country-wide campaign for the party.“We want that Priyanka Gandhi should be given the command of publicity for Congress for the entire country so that 2019 Lok Sabha polls can be contested with full energy,” said Rikin Ahluwalia, another Congress leader.