If Rahul becomes a minister, will he make any difference?  Rahul
Gandhi should remain outside the Cabinet. He will not be able to
bring anything of value to this government in the time it has
left.  Even if it had longer than 17 months, Gandhi would serve
it better by doing what he does, grassroots party work. What
exactly does that mean? It means making sure that the
organisation is in the hands of capable men and women at the
level of districts, of which India has 640, and making sure
these people are fired up. This means travelling in the states
constantly and it isn't a part time job.  Rahul Gandhi. Naresh
Sharma/Firstpost  Bahujan Samaj Party founder Kanshi Ram once
said that a party could only be expanded in an election. What he
meant by that was the opposite of what is obvious. It was the
work you put in during the 58 months when there was no election
which would germinate and sprout in the 2 months of the
campaign.  The plan of the Nehru-Gandhi family has been thus far
to work on the Congress party an