Former finance minister P Chidambaram has said that the Congress President Rahul Gandhi will not be the prime ministerial candidate for the party in the Lok Sabha elections scheduled to be held in 2019. In an interview, the senior party leader on October 22 said that party will not project anyone as the PM face.
Chidambaram further said that projecting a prime ministerial candidate is not absolutely necessary and several leaders have been made prime ministers without being named as prime ministerial candidates. He added that the first step is for all parties to get together and defeat the ruling BJP.