Rahul Gandhi has been appointed by his mother Sonia to a committee looking after the affairs of India's ruling Congress party. Photograph: Raveendran/APP/QUETTA Rahul Gandhi, the crown prince of Indian politics, took a step nearer to power on Thursday when it was announced that his mother Sonia, the leader of the ruling Congress party, had suddenly gone abroad for medical reasons and charged the 41-year-old with running the organisation in her absence.The country immediately plunged into a frenzy of speculation about the nature of the 64-year-old Sonia Gandhi's condition and whether her departure meant the beginning of the long awaited transfer of power to her son.Though...