CHANDIGARH, Nov 5: The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) would seek support from all parties to pull down the United Front Government led by Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral and put its own government at the Centre, according to senior vice-president of the party Madan Lal Khurana.

He told mediapersons here today that the party had changed its strategy to ensure early exit of the `anti-people' UF government in the interest of the nation. Earlier, the BJP was hoping for mid-term elections to Lok Sabha.

Accompanied by General Secretary Sushma Swaraj, Khurana claimed the proposed action would be in accordance with the democratic set-up in India. The two defended the party's strategy in Uttar Pradesh to wash off BJP's image of being an ``untouchable party''. ``We did not engineer defections. Rather, MLAs walked over to the BJP after a split in the Congress,'' they pointed out, adding that Congress Members of Parliament would also be welcome to support the BJP as a group, quitting a party which was fast heading towards hara-kiri.

While Sushma Swaraj observed that the previous BJP-Bahujan Samaj Party alliance in UP was only an experiment which had failed, Khurana said its end would cost the latter dear in Punjab where it had won three Lok Sabha seats in alliance with the Akalis last year. He claimed that the BSP and Akalis would never join hands now.They expressed satisfaction with the Bansi Lal and said minister Ram Vilas Sharma and State president Narinder Modi had no complaints.

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