In comments that can stoke a fresh controversy, Union minister Beni Prasad Verma said the next Lok Sabha elections will see a direct fight between Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi. A day after he said that the SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav was "dreaming" of becoming Prime Minister, Verma said that parties like Samajwadi Party do not have all India presence and hence cannot form a government at the Centre. "The government (at the Centre) will either be of Congress or Modi. Why they (SP) are misleading. Does the public not understand all this. If Rahul Gandhi is our candidate, then the election in the 2014 will be Rahul Gandhi versus Gujrat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. No other party is in between," Verma said.

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