NEW DELHI: India’s ruling Congress party will fight the 2014 general elections under the leadership of its president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a senior party leader said on Saturday.

The issue of who the embattled Congress will project as premier has become a matter of heated speculation with Nehru-Gandhi scion Rahul Gandhi, the next in line in India’s top political dynasty, showing deep reluctance to take the role.

The party would fight the 2014 polls “under the leadership of (party president and Mr Rahul’s mother) Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh” and would not project any prime ministerial candidate, Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh said.

“We will go to the elections under (their) leadership,” the veteran party leader said in televised remarks.

“If we get a majority and form the government, it will be decided then who will be the prime minister,” he added.—AFP