New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has said that his party chief Rahul Gandhi has all the right qualities to make an “excellent” prime minister, on Sunday, December 30.

In an interview to news agency PTI, Tharoor said: “Rahul Gandhi is our leader, which means that if the Congress gets a majority, he will be the PM. If the Congress is in a coalition government, obviously wider discussions will be held with other coalition partners to arrive at a consensus candidate.”

“At a personal level, having had several interactions and discussions in close quarters with the Congress president, to my mind it is evidently clear that Rahul ji has all the right qualities to make an excellent prime minister for the country.” Tharoor added.

Tharoor further added that Rahul Gandhi would be able to fittingly live up to the expectations of the top job.

“And at some level, one could argue that recent statements by non-Congress leaders reflect growing confidence that Rahul is indeed the right man for the job,” Tharoor said. His remarks came after Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) president MK Stalin had backed the Congress president as the prime ministerial candidate of the opposition bloc.