NEW DELHI: In a remark that is likely to spark a political war of words, Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Friday hit out at BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi stating that the latter will never become the Prime Minister of India.Aiyar told ABP news channel at the AICC meet, "Give my word, Modi will never be PM in the 21st century." "If he wants to sell tea here (AICC meet), we can arrange for it," he mocked.Congress has stuck to tradition and played it safe by not naming Rahul Gandhi as its prime ministerial candidate, confirming an ET report of January 15 that said it would steer clear of formally pitching him for a head-to-head contest with BJP's Narendra Modi.After a meeting of the party's all-powerful decision-making body Congress Working Committee on Thursday, Congress said its keenly watched AICC session in Delhi scheduled a day later would only say that the party would fight the upcoming general elections under the Gandhi scion's leadership and explicitly rejected, at his mother and Congress President Sonia Gandhi 's intervention, the mounting clamour to project him as its PM candidate.The demand for anointing Rahul as PM candidate resonated loudly through CWC meeting, but it was struck down by Sonia Gandhi citing party tradition to not project anyone. Janardan Dwivedi explained that Congress did not need to explicitly name anyone unlike other parties where there were too many claimants for the post.With Congress' debacle in four states being attributed to price rise, government came under fire at the meeting of the extended Congress Working Committee with leaders asking it to get its act together before the Lok Sabha elections.Government should turn proactive to roll out measures that would benefit the 'aam aadmi' like raising the limit of subsidised LPG cylinders from nine to 12 and eschew from steps like petrol price hike, the Congress leaders said.After the defeat in the four states, party chief Sonia Gandhi had said that price rise was one of the reasons.