| "The BJP is not a party to work under threats. No ally has threatened to leave the NDA and it is all creation of media. We will never leave our ideology," Naidu told reporters here. Sections of the media were interested in creating such stories of fissures in the NDA and there was no truth in them, he said. |
| The BJP had shown the country how to run a coalition and it was a political arrangement, he said. |
| "We will not thrust our agenda on our allies. We will work for the growth of our party and they will work for their party," Naidu said. |
| Asked whether partners also were accountable for the NDA's defeat in the Lok Sabha polls, Naidu said the Lok Sabha poll result was an "aggregate" of results from states. There was no anti-NDA wave as was evident from results from various states where the BJP ruled at the time of elections. |
| However, the Congress had lost in many states where they were ruling including Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab and Uttaranchal, he said. |
| The BJP leader said though more minority sections came closer to the party, it could not get adequate number of votes in the elections. |
| Stating that the BJP's setback was not a national phenomenon, he said even Citu leader MK Pandhe had stated the other day that the Congress did not have the mandate to rule. "They are ruling courtesy the communists," Naidu said. |
| The BJP leader also flayed the Centre's move to remove the portraits of gods and goddesses from railway stations. |
| "Are they going to replace them with portraits of demons," he asked. |
| The BJP's chintan baithak held at Goa had taken note of the increase in support for the party in Kerala in the last Lok Sabha poll, he said. A three-day state-level camp would be organised in September-October for party activists to evolve a strategy for Kerala. |
| "The situation is ideal for our growth in Kerala with the Congress and Communists now working hand-in-glove with each other," he said. |
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