Rahul Gandhi stakes claim to PM post; political killing takes centrestage in Karnataka; more

Congress president Rahul Gandhi today said that he was ready to become prime minister of the country if his party won enough seats in the Lok Sabha elections in 2019. This is the second time in nine months that Rahul Gandhi has spoken on these lines.

Previously in September last year, Rahul Gandhi, while responding to a question from the audience at the Berkley University in the US, had said that he was "absolutely ready" to be the prime ministerial candidate of the Congress party in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.