'Best Prime Ministerial candidate': Assam Congress MLA endorses Rahul Gandhi as next PM

As speculations are rife over the name of the PM candidate from the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) alliance, Assam Congress MLA Abdur Rashid Mandal has put forth the name of former Congress president and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi and called him the "best Prime Ministerial candidate."

"INDIA alliance will choose the Prime Ministerial candidate. Congress party alone can't select and it depends upon the opinion of all parties of INDIA alliance. Being a Congress MLA, worker I do believe that, Rahul Gandhi will be the most acceptable Prime Ministerial candidate of the INDIA alliance," ANI reported, citing Abdur Rashid Mandal.

Rashid further said that he wants Rahul Gandhi to be the next Prime Minister.


Meanwhile, days after Rahul Gandhi got reinstated as the Member of Parliament, he was nominated to the parliamentary standing committee on Defence.

Before being disqualified in March, Gandhi was a member of the parliamentary panel on defense. Earlier on August 7, Lok Sabha Secretariat restored the membership of Rahul Gandhi after the Supreme Court on August 4 stayed his conviction in the ‘Modi’ surname remark case.

The Congress leader who was disqualified from the Lower House in March 2023 was reinstated as the Wayanad MP.

(With inputs from ANI)