Congress decides not to project Rahul as PM candidate

As the leaders made a common chorus to name Rahul as PM pick, Sonia Gandhi intervened saying why should the party name a PM candidate before polls when there is no such precedent.

"This meeting of the AICC delcares that 2014 election campaign will be led by Rahul Gandhi," the CWC decided adding the line in the omnibus draft resolution which will come before the AICC meeting tomorrow for approval.

Rahul has been entrusted to lead the campaign a year after he was made the party Vice President in the brain storming session at Jaipur in January last.

Taking a dig at BJP, which has declared Narendra Modi as its PM candidate, party general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said that in Congress the question of making anyone the PM candidate never arose starting from the era of Jawaharlal Nehru to the 2004 elections, which the party fought under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi.

"It is always clear who is the leader in Congress. It is never an issue for us," he said adding it is an issue for those parties which have seen intense rivlary and dissension over Prime Ministerial candidate.