BJP on Sunday said there is no rift among NDA partners on the issue of Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections and the matter will be decided collectively within the alliance before the polls.
“There are no issues or differences in BJP... There is no question of any internal rift in NDA or BJP. Before the elections, BJP and NDA will decide under whose leadership we will fight the elections,” BJP’s National vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters in Agra.
Mr. Naqvi was replying to a question on the sidelines of the party’s ‘Chintan Baithak’ (brainstorming session) here on reports of growing rift within NDA over the issue of Prime Ministerial candidate in the 2014 general elections.
Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar had earlier expressed reservation over the candidature of his Gujarat counterpart and BJP leader Narendra Modi for the top post.
BJP President Nitin Gadkari had said on Friday that he had discussed the issue of NDA’s Prime Ministerial candidate with Kumar and assured him that no decision has yet been taken on Mr. Modi being the party’s choice for it.
Mr. Naqvi said, “In 2014 NDA will form its government and root out the corrupt Congress-led UPA government from power.”
Keywords: BJP, Prime Ministerial candidate, NDA partners, 2014 general elections, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
There is no rabbit to be pulled out of the hat as decisions has already been made by
individual parties, its all about which party wields the most bargaining power,the
allies of the bjp in NDA would never agree with someone like Narendra modi and Rss
ISNT pleased with modi either nor would they allow someone like Nitish kumar be
at the helm, Advani is out of question as he is somehow being eased ut, finally the
BJP would bargain hard for Modi knowing fully well that he wontbe acepted but then
put out Nitin Gadkari's name and the allies would have no choice but to accept him as
an alternative to modi.
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