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Is Rahul Gandhi India’s Barack Obama ?

The world has witnessed Barack Obama come to power and I cant help noticing the number of people influenced, insignificantly perhaps, but its become a commonly used phrase overnight - "The change has come". A search for "Obama" and the immediate and weird consequences of this recent Presidential win ranging from Obama updating regularly on twitter to news reports of new born kids in a place as remote as Kenya named after Obama and even his wife. My point is that this man has serendipitously risen up as a ray of hope to all the people in distress. A sense of expectation and hope has suddenly sprung up from no where. I don't know if this man is actually committed or is just putting up an act which might be a burst of enthusiasm, a direct consequence of his recent formidable win, by showcasing an urgency in creating his radical-damage control policies to rationalize, but I am sure what he has achieved in terms of the backing of the whole world, is commendable.

Now the thought that cropped up in my mind is how to replicate such effects in India, I know it wouldn't be that easy considering that India is totally a different scenario, but it wouldn't hurt to bring up a suitable candidate who could represent and inject such change into the people. Well, Of all I could think of Rahul Gandhi, I think this would be a great time for the Congress Party to bring out Rahul Gandhi as the Indian equivalent for the Obama effect. Rahul Gandhi is no new comer into the political arena of India, he has been prominent in some geographies, but it would be great if he is marketed as the young restless blood, the jolt of revival in the failing times. This could work because the congress party has the wise men it always had, plus an added advantage if its coupled with some sense of a promise of young renaissance into the Indian system. It could be a very small section of the vote bank that is targeted by this, the young 20 to 30 year olds of the urban educated population, but it wouldn't hurt when it can increase Rahul Gandhi's reach from a few certain geographies to demography.

I guess with a conscious effort and some wise vision, this could happen, Rahul Gandhi can be portrayed as the Obama of India and perhaps given a chance he will deliver.

We have huge problems to deal with, we need someone able to do it, and we have got to decide wisely. For instance, the IT sector of India - we don't need governance that would subsidize IT, to try to revive it during its fall but we need governance that could see what big next is and make the scenario favorable for that to flourish.

If branding and believing in Rahul Gandhi as the Obama of India can help then why not?

So here it is - My tiny effort to start with.