The MDMK’s headquarters secretary and the party’s candidate for the Tiruchi Lok Sabha constituency, Durai Vaiko, on April 20, 2024, made it clear that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi would be the Prime Minister of the country when the INDIA bloc formed a government at the Centre.
“The MDMK has been saying it for the past two years and it is also my personal opinion that he should be the Prime Minister. I do not know about the views of our alliance partners,” he said, at a press meet in Chennai, when told that alliance partners had not yet put forth a Prime Ministerial candidate.
Mr. Durai said that even during his campaign in Delhi, he had expressed his views on this subject. “I told people that funds would be allotted for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes (MGNREGS) once Rahul Gandhi became the Prime Minister after a change of regime at the Centre. The people were appreciative of this,” he said, after his meeting with Chief Minister M.K. Stalin to thank him for his support.
