Congress
vice-president Rahul Gandhi will lead the party’s campaign for Lok Sabha
elections, but won’t be named the prime ministerial nominee, a working
committee meet decided on Thursday evening.
Congress
chief Sonia Gandhi told the Congress Working Committee (CWC) there was no
tradition of the party anointing a PM candidate before elections, party leader
Janardan Dwivedi said.
“The Lok
Sabha election campaign will be led by Rahul Gandhi,” Dwivedi said after the
meeting. The move to make Rahul Gandhi the poll campaign chief made it amply
clear that in case the party won the 2014 electoral battle, he would be its
first choice as the next PM.
