Amethi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said he would definitely consider becoming Prime Minister if the party comes in power and the elected representatives select him for PM on Thursday.
Rahul Gandhi said to media on the second day of his visit of Amethi, “In Congress, elected MPs select the PM. After elections if our party comes to power and the MPs select me then I will definitely consider it.”
Rahul Gandhi also present the example of Dr. Manmohan Singh and said that he had also been selected as a PM by the choice of elected members and said that there is no system of selecting the PM candidate before polls in Congress party.
He said, “To select a PM is the right of the MPs and it should stay with them. Selecting a PM nominee before polls is not a democratic system, but part of personality cult.”
Notify that Congress chairperson Sonia Gandhi had rejected the demands by leaders from various states to anoint Rahul the PM candidate before elections at the CWC meeting which held recently and said that there has been no such tradition in the party.
Rahul on Thursday told media in Amethi that “democracy is not strong enough” in Uttar Pradesh and there is too much of personality cult.
Rahul alleged, “There is too much of personality cult in Uttar Pradesh. In BSP Mayawati distributes the ticket and in SP only one family distributes it. In UP there are only MLAs and they do not have freedom to work properly.”
When told that even Congress is being run by Gandhi family, he said the party was not run by 10 Janpath and has maximum democracy.
He also claimed, “Democracy is not strong enough in UP. Without associating people, neither the democracy will get strong nor development will take place in the state. I am confident that I will bring Congress government in the state.”
He said, “UP was deprived of development from the last 30 years and unless Congress government comes the situation will remain the same.”
Bureau Report
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