India Leader Singh to Step Down After Vote as Gandhi Rises
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signaled younger party leader Rahul Gandhi should replace him while saying he’ll step aside after elections due by May, ending a decade in power with Asia’s third-biggest economy in a slump.
“I will hand the baton over to a new prime minister,” Singh, 81, told reporters in New Delhi today. Gandhi has “outstanding credentials,” Singh said, adding that top opposition candidate Narendra Modi “would be disastrous for the country” and presided over a “mass massacre” of citizens in his state of Gujarat.