A lengthy string of electoral losses will not keep Rahul Gandhi from being promoted to become Congress chief in October, the party has decided today at a meeting of its top leaders held at the home of Mr Gandhi's mother, Sonia, who is the Congress president. Mr Gandhi, 46, has long been assured by the Congress that the top job is his for the taking. The party is obliged to hold internal elections by December - it has not held them since 2005.
