Sonia Gandhi to push for Manmohan Singh, a Sikh, rather than herself as India's next Prime Minister: Rajiv Desai, a longtime adviser to the Gandhi family, said Mrs. Gandhi had never wanted to be prime minister. Rather, she had wanted to revive the Congress party and defeat the Hindu nationalists, whom she saw as a threat to India's secular identity as it had been defined by her husband's grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru. On Monday night, she told senior party members and allies that she did not want to be prime minister, but had been pressured to change her mind, Mr. Desai said. Today she changed it back. "She was pushed, pushed, pushed, pushed, pushed — now it's come to shove and she's saying no thanks," Mr. Desai said. Her act, he said, was "almost Mahatma Gandhian in scope — the idea of renunciation — the idea of spurning power when you have it in your grasp." Mrs. Gandhi is no relation to Mohandas K. Gandhi, the leader of India's freedom movement. Before her announcement in Parliament, hundreds of party members flocked to her home at 10 Janpath to try to persuade her to change her mind, signing letters to her in blood and threatening to commit suicide. The frenzied scenes were matched by anguished comments from senior party members and allies, who said they would try to make her relent. It was not clear if they would accept her substitution of Dr. Singh without protest.