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