Congress mum on PM's plans for LS polls

India Inc may have projected Manmohan Singh as number one prime minister but Congress today remained tight-lipped on whether he would contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

"These opinion polls are by the press, for the press and of the press. First you create an issue, then you ask question on the issue," party spokesman Abhisek Manu Singhvi told PTI.

"These decisions are made after comprehensive sound thinking by political parties and not as reaction to opinion polls," he said. Singvi said this when asked whether Singh, who has been named number one by the India Inc in an opinion poll, would contest the Lok Sabha elections.

Singh is a member of the Rajya Sabha from Assam and is an AICC member from Assam and Punjab.

The Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee had sometime back appealed to him to contest the Lok Sabha election from Amritsar constituency. L K Advani came second in the poll and Rahul Gandhi third.