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BJP keeps options open of having new post-poll alliances
New Delhi, Apr 26: BJP today kept its options open of having new post-poll alliances even as it said it would be able to form the government with the current NDA partners.
New Delhi, Apr 26: BJP today kept its options open of having new post-poll alliances even as it said it would be able to form the government with the current NDA partners.
"There is no need of any allies as along with our present allies we would be able to form the government after the elections," party general secretary and spokesman Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters here.
Asked whether the party would go in for new alliances after the polls as indicated by top party and NDA leaders including Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, HRD minister Murli Manohar Joshi and NDA convenor George Fernandes, he said, "there is no need of any new allies. However, in coalition politics, doors are never closed."
He reiterated that the party was fighting against SP, BSP and Congress and therefore there was no question of any alliance with either SP or BSP after the elections.
Naqvi claimed BJP was no longer "untouchable" among the Muslims and in many places they had voted for the BJP.
He said there had been reports of violence in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and specially from Chapra in Bihar where the Union civil aviation minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy is battling it out with RJD chief Laloo Prasad Yadav.
"We have complained to the election commission about the large scale violence in this constituency and demanded re-poll as also in Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh where about 150 polling booths have been allegedly captured by SP leader Afzal Ansari," he said.
Bureau Report
Asked whether the party would go in for new alliances after the polls as indicated by top party and NDA leaders including Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, HRD minister Murli Manohar Joshi and NDA convenor George Fernandes, he said, "there is no need of any new allies. However, in coalition politics, doors are never closed."
He reiterated that the party was fighting against SP, BSP and Congress and therefore there was no question of any alliance with either SP or BSP after the elections.
Naqvi claimed BJP was no longer "untouchable" among the Muslims and in many places they had voted for the BJP.
He said there had been reports of violence in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and specially from Chapra in Bihar where the Union civil aviation minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy is battling it out with RJD chief Laloo Prasad Yadav.
"We have complained to the election commission about the large scale violence in this constituency and demanded re-poll as also in Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh where about 150 polling booths have been allegedly captured by SP leader Afzal Ansari," he said.
Bureau Report