Coimbatore, July 28: BJP today said it was not making any moves to provoke DMK to pull out of the NDA at the Centre. "Nobody is making any attempts to remove DMK from the NDA or the government," BJP's Tamil Nadu unit president C P Radhakrishnan told reporters here when asked whether the statements and remarks by some BJP leaders against DMK and its leader, M Karunanidhi, were to provoke it to pull out of NDA.
BJP, he said, had never removed any party from its coalition and the parties that left had done so on their own and some of them had even returned to the NDA. Maintaining that BJP had never shared platform with any other parties outside the alliance, Radhakrishnan pointed out that DMK, though not a BJP ally in Tamil Nadu, was joining hands with Congress and Left parties in the state.
When his attention was drawn to reported statements of Karunanidhi that he did not want to reply to the likes of Radhakrishnan, BJP leader said, "That is good and I am happy". To another question on possible alliances for the forthcoming general elections, he said this would be decided at the time of elections.
On the remarks of VHP leader Praveen Togadia that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa would make a better Prime Minister than A B Vajpayee and L K Advani, he said, "Since each and every citizen born and brought up in India has the stuff to become a good Prime Minister, she is no exception." Bureau Report