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Sruthi Gottipati: Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi: NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ruled out on Friday serving another term after an election due by May and threw his support behind Nehru-Gandhi dynasty scion Rahul Gandhi to lead the country if their party wins the vote, according to Reuters. The 81-year-old Singh has presided over India for a decade at the head of coalitions led by the Congress party and By Sruthi Gottipati and Shyamantha Asokan Singh, a soft-spoken economist, was unusually scathing about opposition leader Narendra Modi, who is ahead of Gandhi in several opinion polls, saying it would be "disastrous" if he were to become prime minister. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.