Chennai, June 09: BJP President M Venkaiah Naidu today asserted that the Prime Minister A B Vajpayee would lead the party and the NDA in the next Lok Sabha polls. He told reporters here today that Vajpayee was not only a leader of the BJP and the NDA but of the entire country, while the opposition was unable to project any leader as the prime ministerial candidate. On RSS leader K S Sudharshan`s remarks that the BJP should concentrate on its ideology and not on personality cult, he said Sudharshan had stated that there was nothing wrong in projecting a leader during the election time. He said the BJP wanted to win 300 seats on its own and gain two third majority along with its allies in the next Lok Sabha polls.


"Even if we get a majority on our own, we will continue with the NDA experiment. Development will be our plank for the polls. For development, we require some Constitutional amendments and that is why we seek a mandate of two-thirds majority", he said.

He said the party would decide on the alliances with other parties only after the polls were announced and would concentrate on `expansion` of the party now.

Ruling out early Lok Sabha polls, he said the polls would be held as scheduled next year.


Asked whether all the constitutents of NDA would continue in the alliance for the Lok Sabha polls, he said `wait and see`. Bureau Report