BJP to decide Party’s PM candidate soon: Rajnath
New Delhi: party will ‘soon’ decide its prime ministerial candidate, BJP President Rajnath Singh said.
Asked if Modi could be the party’s choice for the Prime Minister’s post ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha battle, he refused to make a comment but said Modi’s popularity cannot be denied. “There is no question mark on the popularity of Modi,” he said.
“We will get good number of seats in Uttar Pradesh, our target is 35 to 40,” he added.
Asked about the 2009 Lok Sabha poll debacle, Rajnath Singh said the situation had changed a lot since then. “In UPA I, there were not so many charges against the government as with UPA II. There was inflation, but people had hope things will improve. This time the situation is different, people have lost faith,” Singh said.
The BJP’s recent electoral defeat in Karnataka would not affect the national mood, he asserted. Singh added that there was no proposal for now of reconciling with BS Yeddyurappa, the first BJP Chief Minister in Karnataka whose decision to split the BJP contributed to the party’s defeat.
Rajnath Singh made it clear that the BJP would not try to pull down the Manmohan Singh government. He also ruled out the possibilities of a Third Front. “The Third front experiment has never been successful,” he said.
