India's reluctant political 'prince', Rahul Gandhi, returns from vacation


  • World
  • Thursday, 16 Apr 2015

Rahul Gandhi, vice president of Congress party, shows his ink-marked finger after casting his vote at a polling station in New Delhi in this April 10, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/Files

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian politician Rahul Gandhi returned on Thursday from a mysterious eight-week break in an undisclosed location that had prompted ridicule and questions from colleagues about his fitness to lead the opposition Congress party back to power.

Gandhi's car rolled into the driveway of his colonial-era bungalow on a leafy New Delhi lane. The shy parliamentarian was barely visible behind darkened windows, but a senior party leader waiting at the house confirmed he had arrived.

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