Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday expressed his interest to become the prime minister if the Congress or a coalition led by the party wins next year’s Lok Sabha elections.“That depends on how the Congress performs ... if it emerges as the biggest party — yes,” Gandhi said, replying to a question on whether he would become the PM. When asked what in case it’s an alliance, he said: “…if the Congress is the biggest party, then yes.”The Congress chief was speaking at an interaction session with eminent personalities of Bengaluru after inaugurating the Samruddha Bharat Foundation, a platform that seeks to “propagate liberal, secular and republican values”.This is the second time that Gandhi is expressing his interest to become the PM. Last September, he told a group of students at University of California, Berkeley that if the party wanted, he was ready to be the PM.On the Congress’s chances of reestablishing itself in the context of polarisation against the party, Gandhi, who is a on a campaigning spree in Karnataka, said the BJP would not come to power after the 2019 general elections because of opposition unity.“Today, every single opposition member has one goal in mind — to remove the BJP and RSS from India. The Congress will unite everybody in this ideological fight,” he said.He hoped that a BSP, SP and Congress alliance in Uttar Pradesh would weaken BJP’s strength. And that automatically will stop Narendra Modi from becoming the PM as none of the allies would support him over Nitin Gadkari or other BJP leaders, he said. Continuing his criticism of the BJP and RSS, he accused them of attempting to capture every institution in the country by wielding power.