Calling UPA a "Unlimited Prime Minister Alliance", BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today claimed that the saffron party will emerge as the "single largest party" and its PM-candidate L K Advani will form the government, with the help of NDA partners, after the Lok Sabha polls.
"Congress-led UPA have disintegrated and now it should be called "Unlimited Prime Minister Alliance" because Left, NCP, RJD, SP, Paswan (LJP) parties are presenting their own PM-in-waiting," Swaraj, BJP spokesperson and deputy-leader in Rajya Sabha, told reporters here today.
"No NDA partner barring BJP was racing or posing its candidate as PM-in-waiting and Advani is most liking and undisputed strong leader as the next PM," she claimed adding in UPA coalition, Sharad Pawar, Lalooji, Paswan, Mulayam and others were not accepting Dr Manmohan Singh as the Prime Ministerial candidate for the group.
When reminded that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi posed himself as PM-in-waiting and so did Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan, Swaraj said, "Your questions are irrelevant...Ask rival parties who is next to Dr Manmohan Singh as there is a long queue of PM-in waiting". "Hindu sanskriti mein Pita ke hote, putra utra-adhikari nahin ho sakte (In Hindu culture, as long as father is alive, no off spring could be successor)," she added.
"Arjun ko machali ki aankh dikhti hai...NDA ka apna Lakshya aur Neta hai -- Advani hi PM -- (Arjun targets only eye of a fish...So NDA has its own aim and leader Advani as PM)", she defended. Revealing that the BJP leaders had a meeting in Gujarat after the third phase of polling, covering over two-third of total constituencies yesterday, Swaraj claimed that despite low percentage of polling, the party would emerge as the "single largest party" leaving behind the Congress. I
n the next rounds of polling in Rajasthan, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Western Uttar Pradesh, the BJP would increase its previous Lok Sabha tally for sure, she asserted.
On possibilities of seeking support from the BSP or the Left, the saffron leader said, "BJP will form the next government, if voted to power, only with the support of existing NDA partners and right now would not go for any other political alliance."
Maintaining that the NDA would proceed with National Agenda for Governance (NAG), Swaraj said, "it is premature to ask whether the NDA partners would accept the BJP's agenda of Hindu rashtra and temple or not."
Accusing the Congress of trying to deviate the BJP from its grass-root level issues, she said the party has not changed its poll plank covering unemployment, soaring prices of essential commodities and farmers' woes.Swaraj is likely to address three poll meetings including one for Vasundhara Raje's son Dushyant in Baran.
