A frontrunner denies...

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, who is being marked as the frontrunner to be the UPA's Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, has made it clear that he is not interested in becoming the Prime Minister while adding that asking him whether he want to be Prime Minister is a wrong question!

Rahul Gandhi was known to have expressed while talking to reporters, that the High Command culture needs to end in the Congress while also added that he was meeting people to strengthen the party and the alliance.

As a matter of fact all these now comes at a time when there has been a loud uproar within the Congress to project him as the Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

Moreover, with Rahul's unwillingness to become the Prime Minister, the question is whether the Congress is going through a leadership crisis and that Rahul's statement comes even as he has been seen leading the Congress from the front in the past few days.

Withering of the past practice...

Last week, in a stern warning to rebels, Rahul Gandhi said that from now on doors won't remain open for those who left the party and contested elections against official nominees as he would do away with the past practice of re-inducting such members while he interacted with party leaders and office bearers of the Mumbai unit saying he had come to meet them so that there could be fruitful discussions during which some rules could be formulated for effective functioning of the organisation.

In fact, he mentioned he would do away with the past practice of re-inducting rebels into the party and that doors were open for them earlier but now this will not happen.

It seems that he was quoted as having told the meeting which was not open to the media.

Is this all happening because Congress is going through a leadership crisis?

(AW:Samrat Biswas)