Who next?

RahulG should follow his mother's footsteps and avoid becoming the Prime Minister of India.

SoniaG's manoeuver has paid rich dividends to both the Country (in form of Dr. Singh's leadership) and the Indian National Congress!
Her decision allowed her to stabilise the Congress party. The second facet of this move was to choose a man of high integrity and more importantly high acceptance as the Prime Minister of the country.

Dr. Manmohan Singh's integrity has proved to be a hit with the Indian populace and his accpetance within the Congress party (maybe due to SoniaG's backing OR his own credentials) has kept the Congress leaders from fighting among themselves for the top job!

It would be worthwhile for Rahul to consider this option in the long term interest of India and Congress as well!
If Dr. Singh can continue (and every breath in me hopes he does) "Who next?" has a no brainer answer, in case he chooses not to continue then the search should begin for "Who Next?" from now!
One name that does come to mind is Montek Singh Ahluwalia!

I do not mean to raise aspersions on Rahul's ability, but one thing I learnt in Chess is dont hesitate to sacrifice the queen in interest of the country!

Rahul can play a much bigger role in building the support base required for governing this huge country! The facilitiation of the partnership within the TRINITY of, Government, Political Party and the Citizens is much more an onerous responsibility to carry over than the post of Prime Minister!

I dont know whether this was the intention in SoniaG's, but she achieved the first two of the TRINITY and is well ahead on the third aspect! Rahul has the potential and the charisma (apart from the surname) to placate all the three!!!