Rahul will be PM if Congress forms goverment: Chidambaram

Davos: Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said that if Congress party voted to power, vice-president Rahul Gandhi will be the Prime Minister.
“If Congress is called to form the government, I’m pretty certain in my mind that Rahul Gandhi will be the Prime Minister,” he said while speaking on the sidelines of the 44th World Economic Forum in Davos.
On the upcoming general elections, Chidambaram said it may be an unfortunate event that no party is a clear winner and no one gets majority, as the elections are likely to throw a fractured mandate.
In Delhi elections the rejection was for both Congress and BJP, he said, adding that one was ruling the state government and the other municipal bodies.

“But it is just a few weeks and we are seeing an unravelling of the Aam Aadmi Party,” he said.

Saying that he was not privy to discussions in the state party unit regarding support to AAP, Chidambaram said the Congress was divided in its decision to give outside support to AAP and it was one section favouring the support that prevailed.

Responding to a query on politicians he admires the most, Chidambaram said, “John Kennedy (former US President) and Lee Luan Yew (of Singapore) outside India,” he said.

Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhash Chandra Bose among those he did not know and Indira Gandhi among those he had known, he said.