Jaipur, Jan 19: Amid talk that Rahul Gandhi will be given a larger responsibility, clamour for declaring the young leader as the Congress Prime Ministerial candidate grew louder in the party's Chintan Shivir today.
Union Ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia, Rajiv Shukla, Jitin Prasada, senior leader Manishankar Aiyar batted for larger responsibility for Rahul as the party recognised the need to respond to the demands of “new changing India peopled by a more younger” generation.
Young leader Milind Deora said, “It is a consensus and feeling in the Shivir that youths should be empowered.
On the first day also, a number of leaders including Raj Babbar and Avtar Singh Badhana had demanded that Rahul should be declared Congress PM candidate before the party goes to next Lok Sabha polls.
