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Too early to talk of Prime Ministerial candidate: Manmohan
On Board Prime Minister's Special Aircraft, Oct 1 (UNI) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said it was too early to talk in terms of a potential Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2009 Lok Sabha elections.
Dr Singh was replying to a question on whether he would be the Prime Ministerial candidate.
Speaking to reporters on board Air India One while returning from a two-nation visit to the US and France, the Prime Minister said, ''The Congress party has several leaders who are equally or better qualified than I am. I have not applied my mind to that sort of question,''he added.
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Story first published: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 19:35 [IST]