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"It is a strange situation. They have a Prime Minister but do not have a candidate for Prime Ministership (who will lead in the coming polls)," Singh said in his address at the National Council meeting here to finetune party's strategy for coming elections.
The Council, meeting for the first time after Advani was anointed Atal Bihari Vajpayee's successor, saw the party chief singing paeans for the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and asserting that BJP has got a headstart in the matter of leadership and campaign.
"I would like to ask the UPA, who will be their candidate for the post of Prime Minister in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections? I don't think the Congress will be able to answer this question," he added.
Singh garlanded Advani amid a standing ovation from the around 4,000 delegates present at the Ram Lila grounds with senior leaders including Murli Manohar Joshi joining the chorus but absent was party patriarch Vajpayee, who is unwell.
The BJP chief wondered that while the Congress is talking about single party rule in the country, why it was not clear about a single centre of authority within the government of their party.
In the address, Singh gave clear hints that the BJP has not given up its Hindutva agenda as he asked Government to ‘redefine’ the term minority and also demanded to know where exactly in the Govt Parliament attack convict Mohd Afzal Guru's clemency plea was lying.
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RatingIt is good to be ambitious, but it is typical of BJP stalwarts becoming over-ambitious about their winning the next lok sabha elections due in 2009. BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate, LK Advani being a shrewed politician is leaving no stone unturned in black-mailing congress party to gain political mileage. Congress party is a much older political party than the BJP and as per the adage " an elephant, even dead is worth crores". congress party does not believe in showmanship. There is no dearth of Prime Ministerial candidates in the congress party and without creating any unnecessary propaganda, Prime Ministterial candidate will be announced by the congress party at the appropriate time.
The BJP has placed the Congress party in a real dilemma ! If Sonia had her way she would like son, Rahul installed as the PM but because of his lack of political experience, juniority and bearing like a foreign tourist on a temporary visit to India it would not go down well with Congress stalwarts like Pranab Mukerjee. In fact, but for the wave of public sympathy due to Rajiv Gandhi's assassination and dynastic charisma Pranab should have been the PM. As for Manmohan Singh, a totally rootless and ineffective Prime Minister he is least likely to be nominated for the second term nor would Sonia herself come forward to stake her claim. As the indications are it is almost certain that the Congress party would lose the general elections to the extent that the Leftists, themselves on a weak wicket, would be incapable of bailing it out.
The BJP i think has already asumed that they have won the election and LKA is PM. Such asumptions dont make a PM. Let them fight it out, let the people of this country decide who they need as PM.
There are many, Sonya, Raul, Priyanka, Vodra, their children. If this is not possible then Afzal Guru can be PM. Why is this useless BJP worried?
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