Almost conveniently for the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family, the West is seeing a sudden resurgence of leftist leaders, from Alex Tspiras to Elizabeth Warren. Unencumbered by the baggage of dynasty in their cases (or unaided by the leg-up it provides), these leaders are having to try out new approaches in an aim to burnish their credentials as populist, anti-establishmentarians; the same image that Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi would like to project.

The latest on the block is Jeremy Corbyn, the surprising new leader of the United Kingdom's Labour Party. Corby, a socialist whose recent victory in the Labour Party leadership contest meant that Tony Blair's organisation had taken a most definite lurch to the left, struck upon a unique idea for the first Prime Minister's Questions he got to attend as Opposition leader: crowdsourcing the questions. Corbyn described his style as being different and expressed his desire to make the weekly parliamentary sessions "less theatrical." He is not known for his oratory skills and though a veteran, he has been a back bencher in the parliament through most of his political career. Taking advantage of this, he outsourced his job of asking the Prime Minister questions, ultimately shortlisting six from 40,000 that he received, as the above clip shows.

The Labour Party leader isn't the only Leftist with innovative approaches. In America Elizabeth Warren has taken the I'm-not-running-for-President approach, not unlike Gandhi's frequent claims of not being in the fray, but has instead decided to use that time to get her policy points across. Greek's Alex Tspiras may have had to step down after seven-months as Europe's first radical-left leader in decades, but he has continued to focus on bold gambles and clever campaigning to make yet another comeback bid.