This is reported by Deutsche Welle.

Rahul will replace in this post his mother Sonja Gandhi, who can not be at work for health reasons. Sonia Gandhi's decision was voiced at today's meeting of the INC party, calling her son "a new hope" for Indian socialists. The leftist political party lost its political power in the elections of the current strength of the state leader Narendra Modi. Rahul Gandhi compete with him in the 2019 parliamentary elections.

Rahul blames Modi for inciting religion against Muslims and Buddhists, as well as the policy of discrimination against women and foreigners in the country.

As reported in the "URA-Inform", Rahul was the leader of the party INC in 2013.