Rahul Gandhi won’t be PM candidate of Congress

Rahul will not to be named PM candidate, but he will lead the Congress campaign in Lok Sabha polls, Congress Working Committe said today.

The decision to make him the campaign chief was taken at a CWC meeting.

“This meeting of CWC declares that the 2014 election campaign will be led by Rahul Gandhi,” party spokesperson Janardan Dwivedi said.

While several Congress Working Committee (CWC) members were keen that Gandhi be anointed the party’s prime ministerial candidate, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi intervened to say that it was not the tradition of the party to declare the candidate.

She said Rahul Gandhi would lead the party campaign for 2014, Dwivedi told reporters after the CWC meet.