Tirupati: Apparently going on a election mode, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president M Venkaiah Naidu on September 2 said his party's major plank for the coming polls for five states – Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chattisgarh, Delhi and Mizoram – and the 2004 Lok Sabha, would be on good governance and development.

The party would fight the polls on issues like development and nationalism, he told reporters.

A comprehensive and comparative study report on the achievements during the 47-year rule of the Congress and the five year rule of Vajpayee-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) at the Centre, would be brought out as part of the party's poll strategy for the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls to the five states, he said.

"The BJP has a lofty objective of winning 300 seats in the next Lok Sabha polls. I know it is difficult, but not impossible," he said.

Hitting out at Congress, he said Congress, during its 47-year rule, had failed to achieve much in the area of development. "It has created problems such as terrorism and separatist tendencies," he alleged.

On the other hand, Vajpayee government had made progress in several sectors such as in infrastructure and welfare of women, he said.

Urging the muslims to respect the Hindu sentiments in the wake of findings of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and pave the way for the construction of a Ram temple at Ayodhya, Venkaiah, said, "The dispute should be put to rest and in a spirit of brotherhood, all of us should come together to build the Ram temple as a symbol of national self respect."

He said both Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) had proved to be caste-based organisations. "Former Chief Minister Mayawati is interested in pursuing the caste agenda, while Mulayam Singh is pursuing the Muslim-Yadav agenda," he said.

Replying to a query, he said even today, his party could not understand what was the prime cause for Mayawati's unilateral decision to recommend the dissolution of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.

"I like not to talk ill of our former partners," he said.

PTI