Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced on Friday that he would step down after the May 2014 general election, clearing the decks for Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi to be named the party's PM candidate. With the All-India Congress Committee session scheduled for January 17, the clamour from within the party for Rahul's coronation is set to grow: Naming the 43-year-old would enable the party to present a clear alternative to the BJP's Narendra Modi.The Nehru-Gandhi scion will then have a chance of becoming the fourth prime minister from India's most famous political family, but will have his task cut out for him after a disastrous set of assembly election results last month.

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