Lucknow: Reacting to DMK president M K Stalin's proposal to project Congress president Rahul Gandhi as the prime ministerial candidate for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav said on Tuesday it was not necessarily the alliance's opinion.
Talking to reporters after unveiling a statue of his father and legendary Tamil leader M Karunanidhi in Chennai on December 16, Stalin had "proposed" Gandhi's name for the opposition's prime ministerial candidate.
"The people of the country are unhappy with the BJP and that it why the Congress got success in three states.
"West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, NCP leader Sharad Pawar and others had tried to bring all the leaders together to form an alliance ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. If someone (Stalin) is giving his opinion on the PM candidate, it is not necessary that all alliance partners have the same opinion," Yadav said.
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister's comment assumes significance in the backdrop of his absence at the swearing-in of the chief ministers in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, where the Congress party came to power after the recently held assembly elections.
