The step resorted to by Sharad Pawar was not motivated by kursi prem -- a passion for power but, it was deshprem -- patriotism.

Speaking to newsmen here on Saturday before addressing his evening public rally at Home Ground, Mahajan said that the issue related to Sonia's foreign origin raised by Pawar, P A Sangama and Tariq Anwar was not the Bharatiya Janata Party's main election plank. The party would go to the people with the achievements of the Vajpayee government within the short time of 13 months.

BJP would not go for any electoral agreement with Sharad Pawar in Maharashtra, Mahajan said replying to a question and added that their alliance with the Shiv Sena would continue.

``We will get more seats then in the previouselections due to the split in the Congress in the State,'' he said.

``There is no strong opposition in the State now to give a tough fight to the saffron alliance. The Congress is broken while the Republican Party of Indian has been disseminated,'' he added.

Lack of experience to run the government was the vital aspect of BJP's apposition to project Sonia Gandhi as the prime ministerial candidate. ``She has no experience at all, neither she has ever contested for even a grampanchayat post. How can she weigh such responsibility?'' he asked.

He said that the Congress has no future in the country and its popularity was waning. The BJP government was indispensable for the country as it has proved to be the only political force which could give a strong and stable government.

Coalitions were inevitable at the Centre nowadays, he said and added that the BJP and its allies remaining united even after the fall of the Vajpayee government has proved the political understanding among them.

Mahajan sidetrackedquestions on the ongoing conflict within the BJP in Uttar Pradesh branding it as an ``internal affair'' of the party. ``The matter will be sorted out with mutual understanding. It will not have any adverse effect on the party in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections,'' he said.