NEW DELHI, Dec 11: Outgoing Indian Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral Wednesday said he would "think twice" if Offered the top Job after general elections early next year, reports AFP.

Gujral. a former diplomat who became the leader of India's 960 million people by default eight months ago, told a private television channel that his experience as premier had made him wary.

"I was reluctant earlier but now I will think twice." he said.

Gujral became leader of the minority United Front Coalition government earlier this Eear when the alliance's key acker, the Congress (I) Party, withdrew its support demanding that Gujral's predecessor HD Deve Gowda be replaced.

A crisis was averted when Deve Gowda resigned and was replaced by Gujral — a compromise candidate acceptable to the front's 14 parties.

But the suave, bookish leaders' government was rocked when Congress last month demanded the sacking of a coali-

tion member party implicated in the 1991 assassination of former Congress premier Rajiv Gandhi.

Gujral, who resigned on November 28 after refusing to give in to the Congress demand, also said no single party would emerge a clear winner in the February-March elections.

"I do not see any prospect of single party rule," he said, adding that coalitions should be forged before elections.