Dr Manmohan Singh my candidate for PM: Rahul

The partys billboards may showcase him as the future but echoing what his mother and Congress president Sonia Gandhi said six months ago...

The partys billboards may showcase him as the future but echoing what his mother and Congress president Sonia Gandhi said six months ago,Rahul Gandhi said in Surat that Manmohan Singh will remain the UPAs Prime Ministerial candidate in 2009.

I have answered this question many times in the past. My prime ministerial candidate for the coming Lok Sabha elections is Dr Manmohan Singh, Rahul said,when asked if he could see himself as the UPAs next PM.

Sonia had said last August that Singh would certainly remain UPAs man for the PMs job. Asked if he would unfurl the national flag at Red Fort next year,Singh had then said,Hopefully, leaving Sonia,standing next to him at a press briefing,to intervene: Certainly,I am saying,certainly.

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And just days ago,after the PMs surgery,Sonia,in the latest issue of party mouthpiece Congress Sandesh,said: (Dr Singh) has many more years of service both to our party and to our country. We look forward to his continued leadership.

Rahul refused to react to Narendra Modis remark that the nation should be freed from Nehru-Gandhi family rule. Mr Modi has many views and he is entitled to have his views, he said.

Rahul completed his three-day Gujarat visit in Surat today.

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