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No mid-term Parliamentary elections, says Naidu
Saturday, October 12 2002 12:44 Hrs (IST)

Hyderabad: Ruling out possibility of mid-term polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), however, said on October 12 it was "galvanising" its cadre for an early campaign focussing on achievements of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government and asserted Atal Behari Vajpayee's "name and fame" would be the party's poll plank for the next Parliament elections.

"Parliament polls will not be advanced at all. We will complete our tenure. There is no question mark on the government or threat to its stability," the party president M Venkaiah Naidu told in Hyderabad.

Presenting the 'progress report' of NDA government on its completion of three years in office, Naidu admitted that his party's "only drawback" was that it could not effectively communicate to the people the myriad achievements of the coalition government.

Stating that BJP was gearing up the cadre from "now onwards" for an early campaign with a target of 300 Lok Sabha seats for the party, Naidu, however, sidestepped a question on whether his party was looking for new allies, saying the issue would be discussed only at the time of elections.

"Now, our aim is to expand the party across all social groups and firm up alliance with people first. We are going to tell our cadre that if allies need us, they will come to us," the BJP chief said.

Reeling out a list of achievements in the last three years covering a plethora of socio-economic sectors, he said the NDA government had to grapple with the "most irresponsible Opposition that India ever had".

PTI





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