Coimbatore: In order to accomplish many big tasks set for the next five years, requiring important legislative and political initiatives, National Democratic Alliance (NDA) needs a bigger mandate, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president M Venkaiah Naidu said and appealed to the electorate to give a decisive and two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha polls.

With the second phase of polling underway and the trend showing by all the exit polls making clear who the winner and who the loser will be, BJP's appeal to the people was simple, "to give us a decisive majority, a two-thirds majority," Naidu told a press conference in Coimbatore.

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Many big tasks like river-linking project, reservation for women in Parliament and State legislatures, effective financial and administrative empowerment of panchayati raj institutions through a Constitutional amendment, may involve important legislative and political initiatives, he said.

Claiming that A B Vajpayee's return as the Prime Minister of the country for the record fourth time was a certainty, Naidu said NDA has a task of bringing in a legislation on the foreign origin issue, on holding the posts of President, Vice-President, Prime Minister and Chief Justice.

This legislation was not aimed at Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, but it could be someone else in the future, Naidu said.