New Delhi, May 14
Breaking her silence on leading the new government, the Congress President, Ms Sonia Gandhi, said today that she was willing to become the Prime Minister if the party’s allies wanted it.
“Yes, normally it functions like this,” Ms Sonia Gandhi told Italian newspaper “La Repubblica” in an interview when asked whether she would take charge if the allies wanted her to become the Prime Minister.
Ms Sonia Gandhi, however, said she was not attached to “any particular position” and the party and the MPs would elect their leader.
“I am not attached to any particular position, and regarding the question of the Prime Minister, it will be the party and the MPs who will give the decisive word. It’s the winners of the elections who have to elect their leader,” she said in the interview, excerpts of which were telecast on the BBC tonight.
In her first interview after the results were declared, the Congress President asserted that she was not an Italian but an Indian.
Asked whether she felt this moment as an Italian, as a Hindu and as a winner in these elections, she said: “First of all not as an Italian but as an Indian, because I am an Indian.” She said it was certainly a “very happy moment” for the Congress because after eight years the party was going to form a government.
— UNI
