| When, on his arrival at the airport here yesterday, reporters asked him whether development or Ayodhya was going to be the poll plank for the National democratic Alliance, he said, "development." |
| But when the question on Ayodhya was repeated, he said, "All these are there". |
| To a question about the National democratic Alliance's major campaign themes for the south, he said, "I will tell it in Kanyakumari tomorrow". |
| Asked whether the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was going to rule on its own if it got 300-plus seats in the Lok Sabha, he said, "our party leaders will tell you". |
| Vajpayee arrived here on his way to Kanyakumari where he would inaugurate work on the north-south corridor highway project tomorrow. |
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