NEW DELHI, Jan 14:

Ahead of the AICC meetingon Friday when he is expected tobe named the Congress PrimeMinisterial candidate, RahulGandhi today appeared ready totake up the responsibility.

"I am a sepoy of Congress. Iwill obey whatever order is givento me. I will do whatever Cong-ress wants me to do... Decisionsare taken in our party by seniorleaders," he told Hindi daily'Dainik Bhaskar' in an interview.

"Earlier also some decisionswere taken...Power is poison....Does not mean that I am notkeen to take responsibility.There is no word of reluctancein my life...Congress has neverbeen specific. Whatever task theCongress wanted me to accom-plish, I have done that," Gandhisaid when asked whether he wasready to take up the post ofPrime Minister and about per-ceptions of him being reluctant.

Gandhi's remarks at theparty's Chintan Shivir in Jaipur

in January last year that hismother Sonia Gandhi had toldhim that power is poison had ledto speculation as well

Opposition attack that theCongress Vice President was notwilling to take up responsibility.

To a direct question on whether

he will accept any such responsi-bility, Gandhi said, "None of myfamily members ever worked forthe sake of power.(PTI)

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Ready for whatever Congress wants me to do: Rahul