With election trends favouring UPA, Congress on Saturday said Manmohan Singh will be the Prime Minister now and Rahul Gandhi its future prime minister.
“This election Manmohan Singh is our prime ministerial candidate,” AICC general secretary Janardan Dwivedi told reporters.
The Prime Minister's chair is Rahul Gandhi's future as he is the future leader of the party, Dwivedi said.
He said there were three decisive factors for party's good performance - leadership of the government by the Prime Minister, leadership of UPA by Sonia Gandhi and leadership of campaign by Rahul.
Dwivedi's remarks come at a time when UPA appeared all set to return to power.
On the issue of alliances, Dwivedi said Left parties also have very little options and will also introspect in the post election scenario.
"We had not broken the relationship, they had withdrawn support," he said.
The Left parties had withdrawn support to the Congress-led UPA government following differences over the Indo-US nuclear deal. The Congress on Saturday said it would stake claim to form the government and hoped that President Pratibha Patil would invite it.
Congress general secretary BK Hariprasad expressed confidence that the UPA will emerge as the single largest party and along with its allies it will be able to muster the majority.
Asked whether the UPA could stake claim to form the government, he said, "Of course."
"We expect the President to invite the single largest party with its allies to form the government," he said.
Earlier, he expressed confidence that Left parties would extend support to Congress to form the government to avert the "danger" of "communal and divisive politics posed by BJP".
"We welcome support from all parties except BJP and Shiv Sena to form a secular govt... We need support of all secular parties whoever wants to support is welcome," he said.
The Congress leader said Rahul Gandhi's decision to go alone in Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh had made "a difference" which is reflected by the party's good performance in the state.
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