With two months to go for the Lok Sabha election 2019, this is as big a bombshell that the former Samajwadi Party chief could have dropped. That too with Sonia Gandhi sitting right beside him.

Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday backed the incumbent prime minister, Narendra Modi, for the coveted post. His exact words were: "Meri kaamna hai ki pradhaanmantri ji aap phirse pradhaanmantri banein. Mera anubhav hai ki main jab bhi aap se mila, aapne turant mera kaam kiya [I wish that PM Modi, you should become the prime minister again. I have experienced that whenever I met you, you got my work done instantly.]"