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| Sonia Gandhi rules out change of PM |
| Sonia Gandhi rules out change of Prime Minister
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| INDIA
, 7-March-2012
5:2:58 AM |
| While the Congress assesses damage from its disastrous showing in what was pegged as a mini-general election, its president is clear that the UPA government that her party leads at the Centre is secure and that there will be no change of Prime Minister till 2014. And she will not answer who the Congress' candidate for PM will be in the next General Elections as "we are in 2012 and 2014 is a long way off."
The Congress president made a rare appearance today to explain what went wrong yesterday and had all her answers ready. In UP, she said, a weak organisation and a poor choice of candidates had done her party in. Wrong candidates meant more rebels, she said. She also said very candidly, with a laugh, that her party's problem was not a lack of leadership, but that of "too many leaders." Spoiling the broth?
Relaxed, wearing a maroon salwar-kameez, Mrs Gandhi emerged from a series of one-on-one meetings with senior party leaders at her 10 Janpath residence this morning, and said the Congress learnt lessons from every election and would now correct its mistakes and focus on polls this year in Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka. "We have to pull our socks up and prepare," she said.
How these election results will affect the UPA at the Centre, as it battles the problem of recalcitrant allies, has been all the buzz. But Sonia Gandhi said her government "will continue to talk to allies and opposition and I am sure they will support us on issues that benefit the people."
Yesterday, the Congress could add only six seats to its earlier tally of 22 in UP; it lost a sitter in Punjab; lost Goa comprehensively, and fell short of a majority, though it has now staked claim, in Uttarakhand. Mrs Gandhi pointed out that the party had been re-elected in Manipur.
The Congress chief fielded questions about the party's poor showing in the family bastion of Amethi-Rae Bareli calmly. She admitted that the Congress'
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