New Delhi: Amid heightened speculation about Rahul Gandhi's nomination as Congress' prime ministerial candidate, senior party leader and Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today said it is the “right time” that he is declared.
Downplaying the challenge of Narendra Modi in the General Elections, the 79-year-old Himachal leader said,”I don't think Modi is a mountain which cannot be removed. You (Media) have made Modi a mountain...”
Maintaining that any election is a challenge, he said that earlier also the top leaders of BJP like Atal Behari Vajpyee and L K Advani had led their party in elections. “If Modi came today, it is their internal matter whom they want to project. We do not think there is a very big challenge for us,” he said.
“Rahul Gandhi has a tradition of Congress party, tradition of family value...Now he has become Vice President and is leading the movement of youths... Today people want youth leadership to come forward. From all points of views, he is fit to run the party and become Prime Minister,” Singh told reporters.
To a question on whether he thinks that the right time has come for the party to name Rahul its PM candidate in the January 17 AICC meeting, Singh said,”It has indeed come. This is the right time. When will it be done otherwise? After elections?
