Rahul Gandhi to visit Bahrain on Jan 7

Congress President Rahul Gandhi

"Congress President Rahul Gandhi has taken a decision that the presidents of all Pradesh Congress Committees, Regional Congress Committees and Territorial Congress Committees will continue in their posts after the organisational election also unless some decision is taken to replace them", the release said.

NRIs from 65 countries are expected to attend the meeting.

Since Rahul Gandhi took charge, Congress brass has been laying extra focus on the party's research department to flag issues and provide information to its leaders as well as the social media unit for better media projection. The NRIs settled there have invited him.

Rahul will also meet Bahrain Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa and other local leaders.

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Ahead of 2019 elections, the Congress President's visit is significant, as the party will seek to present the leader to an in worldwide audience.

"An arrogant Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a failed finance minister Arun Jaitley, hell bent upon ignoring economic wisdom, have dealt a catastrophic blow to India's growth story as proved by the latest GDP estimates slumping from 7.3% to 6.5%", he said.

Rahul Gandhi had gone on a 15-day-trip to the United States of America during September a year ago. He had also addressed University of California Berkeley.

Gandhi's outreach is being seen as a move to popularise Congress among the large Indian diaspora. While a group of researchers were helping the party's parliamentary team, it was expanded to form the department in July, 2017. The format is much like the manner in which the Labour Party functions in the United Kingdom or Democrats in the U.S., explained a party source.

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