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If Congress comes to power in 2019, this Gujarati, not Rahul Gandhi, may become PM

Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda has headed India's National Knowledge Commission, and served as advisor to former prime minister Manmohan Singh on public information infrastructure and innovation.

"If everything goes according to plan, he could become the prime minister when the Congress comes to power. If I know Rahul Gandhi, he may not like to accept an official assignment and this man will be Rahul's Manmohan Singh," says a Congress general secretary, on condition of anonymity naturally, about telecom entrepreneur Sam Pitroda, who is now campaigning for the party in

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