The election of the first president of the Indian Congress from outside the “Gandhi family”

India’s largest opposition party Congress on Wednesday elected a non-Gandhi president for the first time in 24 years in a bid to reverse its slow decline, local media reported.
The same sources said that party members elected the 80-year-old ex-minister Malikargon Khariji as their party’s leader to succeed Sonia Gandhi.
The Congress party was powerful in the past, and contributed to India’s independence 75 years ago.