NEW DELHI: Leading Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has asserted that the All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Rahul Gandhi “may not be” the prime ministerial candidate in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

MP from Kerela stated that his party would surely have alliances with other parties before going into the elections but a decision of the PM candidate would be taken together.

The decision on the prime ministerial face of the Congress-led coalition would be a collective one as “party has a broader notion of a leader unlike the BJP,” he was quoted by Zee News as saying.

Tharoor stated that there is no lack of brilliant and competent leaders in the party and mentioned the likes of Pranab Mukherjee and P Chidambaram for their outstanding track record in their political career.

Thiruvananthapuram MP Tharoor, however, stated that Rahul Gandhi is the categorical choice of Congress workers as their leader.He maintained that if free and fair polls are held, Congress led by Rahul Gandhi would mark a biggest win in polls.

After his hot “scorpion analogy”, the Congress MP yet again cornered PM Narendra Modi and called him a "hero on a white stallion with an upraised sword in his hand". Tharoor had landed into a fresh controversy at the Bangalore Literature Festival on Sunday.