Sonia To Dump Rahul, Promote Priyanka?

Apparently disappointed with the poor public image of her son Rahul Gandhi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi is said to be planning to promote her daughter Priyanka Gandhi as her heir apparent.
According to reports from New Delhi, Sonia has reportedly decided to field Priyanka from Rae Bareli parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh in the next elections. The constituency is presently being represented by Sonia, who will not be contesting the next elections due to her ill-health.
Hitherto, Priyanka had not evinced much interest in politics, except being a star campaigner for the party. Though Sonia has been encouraging Rahul Gandhi as the next prime ministerial candidate, he has proved a good for nothing character so far. While the party lost miserably wherever he campaigned, he could prove no match for Narendra Modi, the probable Prime Ministerial candidate for the NDA. And he has reluctantly taken up the job of AICC vice-president and has refused to be identified as PM candidate.
Under these circumstances, Sonia thought there would be no other option but to rope Priyanka into the active politics. In the last couple of months, Priyanka had made frequent visits to Rae Bareli and held meetings with the Congress party workers. May be Sonia is thinking that Priyanka’s resemblances with Indira Gandhi would bring back the glory to the party in UP, say sources.