Major power players in India’s PM competition Gandhi and Modi looking set to face off nationally

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Brand Modi vs Brand Rahul: What They’ve Said So Far

NewsLook – Though neither Narendra Modi nor Rahul Gandhi have been named the prime ministerial candidates of their respective parties, the national election will be centered to a large extent on their face-off. Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh today told NDTV that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are working together for 2014 general elections.

Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi may have operated as a middleman for a Swedish firm that hoped to sell fighter jets to India, US diplomats said in the 70s in cables sent from Delhi to Washington DC. The Hindu today reports that a cable dated October 21,1975, talks of this information.