In rare moments of earnestness, Rahul Gandhi has in the past confessed to a keenness to “work his way out of a job,” so to speak. The Congress party, which is something of a Nehru-Gandhi family heirloom, privileges people like himself, who belong to the First Family of Indian politics, but he himself was working to rejuvenate it through inner-party democracy, he claimed. And when that mission is accomplished, he suggested, the party will no longer be tied to dynastic apronstrings.