INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
negotiations in the Congress for the top job in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, Sonia Gandhi, asked who she thought would be chief minister,
said: "Please ask Rahul".Her son and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has the tough task today of deciding chief ministers for the three big
states won by the party on Tuesday."We are taking inputs from different people in the party - from MLAs, from workers We are getting a
comprehensive answer to what the Congress party and others feel of course you have to see a chief minister soon," he told reporters as he
left parliament to return to his party office to meet the two sets of leaders fighting for the chief minister's post in Madhya Pradesh and
Rajasthan - Kamal Nath, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot.On Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi took the unusual step of sending an
audio message to over two lakh party workers in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and urging them to use an app to reveal their
choice of chief minister.Speaking to TheIndianSubcontinent, Rahul Gandhi said it was an attempt to connect with the party workers and get
them to communicate, and also an effort to find out who would be suitable for the top post.Sonia Gandhi, who gave the party reins to her son
after 19 years last December, agreed that he was attempting something "different and refreshing"
"An experiment, but this is a good experiment," she said.In the audio message, the Congress President asks workers to name their choice and
promises complete confidentiality
"Who should be the chief minister Please mention just one name
I'm the only person who would know whom you are naming
No one in the party will know
Please speak after the beep," he says.
