New York was splendido, wonderful, because Rahul was with me. You should have seen him, Mamma, so bello, so handsome, so serio, serious, in his formal suit. Always there to give us consiglio, advice, on what we should do or say. They say he is beginning to look like Us, but I see his father, padre, and his noni, grandmother, in his faccia, face. Not just in his faccia, but in his futuro as primo ministro, too. Mamma, you may not know this as yet, but he has been promoted by the Congress partito to be its general secretary. This is a high onore, honour, mamma, and could be the stepping-stone to far higher roles. But We did not suggest his name, Mamma, since We are committed to inner-party democrazia. It was the leader politico, party leaders, that were constantly asking for this elevazione, elevation, and, finally, we had to give in with riluttanza, reluctance. Poor Rahul, he will now have so many responsabilita and we had wanted to protect him from difficile political struggles. But, Mamma, even if We say it Ourselves, India needs the visione and energia of Rahul Gandhi. Priyanka is in perfect accordo, agreement, with Us on this. We believe the tempo has come to make that move to the futuro. How long can India be deprived of world-class talento? Would We not be failing in our responsabilita to the nazione, nation, if We stood in his way?

Now the whole paese, country, is wondering what Our next move will be. Will We go in for mid-term election? If so, when? But we will keep them guessing. These are questione that need serio discussion and the new general secretary and Ourself, the presidenta, will decide (along with the party gente, of course) what we should do next. So it looks like our life will be in one big riunione, meeting, from now on, especially with the big party session later this mese, month.

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