Rahul may be named PM candidate when AICC meets in January

Congress is holding an AICC meeting here on January 17 after the poll debacle in four states, amid a "consensus" over Rahul Gandhi's leadership as its Prime Ministerial candidate as "people are looking for a face".
Party general secretary Janardan Dwivedi announced the decision of holding the AICC meeting to be attended by a thousand odd delegates from across the country here, almost one year after the Jaipur Chintan Shivir where Rahul was elevated as the party's Vice President.
Hours after the announcement, party spokesperson and AICC media secretary Priya Dutt said that entire party is looking forward to the session and an announcement regarding PM candidate will make them "very very happy".

"I think the entire Congress party, and not just the youngsters in the Congress party, are looking forward to the session and if there is an announcement made on the lines of announcing the Prime Ministerial candidate, I think we all will be very-very happy.
"We would wish Rahul Gandhi is projected and he does take it on for the future. Right now there is a consensus in party and I do not think I have to explain that and I think all of us know it. This has been expressed even earlier also that it is his leadership which has the consensus in the party," Dutt told reporters.

She was replying to a question about the mood in the party over announcing Gandhi as PM candidate or his taking over as Prime Minister before the elections.
To another question whether Rahul is the panacea for all ills facing the party, she said, "We should not think of anything as a remedy.
"We are not looking at anything as a remedy as you know that Congress party had never projected anybody as CM candidate or PM candidate but today we feel and I think everyone here agrees that people are looking for a face," she stressed.