Cong will take final call on PM nominee: Dwivedi
A day after AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh hinted that the party may not announce Rahul Gandhi as its prime ministerial candidate, another senior functionary of the party, Janardhan Dwivedi, said, no final decision has yet been taken on the issue, but individual may have their “personal opinion”. With this the party has tried to keep the option open to declare its prime ministerial candidate ahead of 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
“Individuals may have their personal opinions, but on such issues final decision is taken by the party only. The party has declared in Jaipur at the time when Rahul Gandhi’s appointment as vice-president was announced that the question of campaign and leadership would be decided by it later. No time frame was announced,” Mr Dwivedi said.
He was responding to a question on the hint given by Mr Singh that declaration of Mr Gandhi as the party’s prime ministerial candidate ahead of polls is unlikely.
“We do not have a presidential form of government. Congress party does not declare PM or CM candidates before elections... Even in the Karnataka Assembly elections we had not declared any CM candidate,” Mr Singh had said in an interview to a news agency.
However, party leaders have been saying in private that Rahul Gandhi is the natural choice as PM candidate given the fact that as party vice president he was number two in the organisation after party chief Sonia Gandhi, who has renounced the post of Prime Minister some ten years back.
At the AICC briefing, AICC general secretary Ajay Maken, who is Communication department chief, steered clear of the issue, saying he did not want to say anything.
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