New Delhi: Buoyed by the encouraging trends in favour of the Congress in the Lok Sabha polls, party general secretary Ambika Soni today (May 13, 2004) fired the first salvo for Sonia Gandhi to become the Prime Minister.

"Sonia Gandhi is the leader of the Congress party. We want that our party chief should become the Prime Minister," she said.

Asked if the Congress president was tipped to head the Government, she said, "Gandhi would herself talk to the leaders of party's allies for election of a leader to head the secular front Government."

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Expressing confidence that a non-NDA secular Government would be installed at the Centre, she said that the people had rejected the ruling BJP-led NDA.

The people have voted in favour of the Congress and its allies who have been championing the cause of poor, downtrodden, social equality and secularism, Soni added.

She recalled that it was the BJP-led Government which decided to dissolve the 13th Lok Sabha eight months ahead of the schedule in view of the BJP's victory in three States but the people had rejected the ruling coalition.