If Opposition forms govt in 2024, Rahul Gandhi should be PM: ex-Union minister Shakeel Ahmad

New Delhi: Congress leader and former Union minister Shakeel Ahmad on Thursday asserted that if the Opposition forms the government in 2024, his party should lead it with Rahul Gandhi as the prime minister.

Ahmad, who was a minister of state in UPA-I and a former general secretary of the party, said technically there may be other parties but there are largely two national parties – the Congress and the BJP.  The Congress has a



government in three states, is in an alliance government in seven states and the premier Opposition party in over 10 states, the senior party leader from Bihar said.

"Every Congress leader and worker wants that Rahul Gandhi should become the prime ministerial candidate and the prime minister, and lead the country," he told PTI at the airport here on his way to Raipur to attend the Congress' plenary session.