Vote against coalition, not for Sonia as PM: Swaraj Thursday, May 13 2004 13:09 Hrs (IST)
New Delhi:
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today (May 13, 2004) admitted that there were "undercurrents" against the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) which could not be gauged and that the "vote was against the ruling coalition and not for Sonia Gandhi as Prime Minister".
"People have not accepted her (Gandhi's) alliance plus Left parties which make up the numbers," she said.
She said that the results have gone "totally against our expectations".
To a question, Swaraj denied that it was Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani who pushed for early elections. "It is the Prime Minister who decided to go for the polls," she said.
Asked about the reasons for the party's poor performance and whether the foreign origin issue against Sonia Gandhi has backfired, she said all aspects would be analysed by the party leaders.
"Everybody missed the undercurrent - pollsters, electronic media as well as the print media," she said.
She, however, exuded confidence that as an individual party BJP will have more number of seats than Congress.
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