Why do you think Sonia Gandhi has declined the prime ministership?
From the very beginning she has been reluctant to take up the post. In the past one week, I have met her a number of times during her meetings with the coalition partners. She was always unwilling to take up the top post. But we have been telling her that she should take it up and lead the coalition government. We truly believed she would do that. So why did she change her mind suddenly? Maybe she has been thinking about it. Maybe her family members, her children, advised against becoming the prime minister. It is a family that has suffered the most. Therefore, we can understand the conviction behind Sonia Gandhi’s renunciation. Did coalition partners like the Left front ask Sonia Gandhi to reconsider her decision? We asked her a number of times. But I feel once she decides on something, she sticks to it very firmly. What do you think of Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origin issue taken up by the Bharatiya Janata Party? The BJP has exposed itself as a party that suffers from a poverty of ideas
