Varanasi, Monday, February 6, 2012: Rahul Gandhi today said he was not “obsessed” with becoming the Prime Minister but remained committed to transform Uttar Pradesh where people have been “fooled” for the last 22 years by successive regimes.

At a rare press conference, a combative Rahul sharply criticised L K Advani on corruption in Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Punjab or in the “coffin scam” in the Kargil war even as the BJP leader took out various yatras across the country.

Answering questions on corruption, the Gandhi scion said when he proposed that the Lokpal be given Constitutional status, the opposition laughed at it. But this would happen.

Asked about his sister Priyanka’s comment yesterday that he was fit to be the Prime Minister, Rahul responded by saying that he was not “obsessed” with the post but was “obsessed with Uttar Pradesh” where he has been campaigning relentlessly during the Assembly polls.

“All the political leaders in India, all the top ones, have an obsession with prime ministership. This is not Rahul Gandhi’s obsession. I have another obsession.

“I want to correct the way we have been working in this state, I believe it is a monumental crime not to hear to the voice of the people. I don’t have any major strengths.

“All I have is that some people in this country believe in me. Even if one per cent of the people in UP RPT UP believe in us, that will be good for me,” he said.

(News agency)