Thursday, April 2, 2009

Pranab rules out becoming PM


NEW DELHI: Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Thursday that he could not become the Prime Minister of India since he neither possessed good command over the Hindi language nor hailed from northern states of world’s largest democracy.Pranab said in a TV interview that he hailed from a state where leftists enjoyed majority. He praised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his intelligence and grasp of the issues and said Singh had full support of Sonia Gandhi and the party.

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