'Indians prefer Sonia as PM over Singh'
Indians would prefer ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi as the prime minister to incumbent Manmohan Singh, who took up the job she refused, a poll published over the weekend said.
The Italian-born Gandhi, however, lost to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee as the top choice by a huge margin, according to the poll results published by weekly news magazine India Today.
Nearly a quarter of 14,351 people interviewed in 19 states voted for Vajpayee. Gandhi bagged 17 percent of votes, while Singh got only 15 percent in the poll conducted by research agency AC Nielson ORG-MARG.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Gandhi steered her party to a surprise win in 2004, but turned down the premier's job after opposition parties criticised her over her foreign birth.
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