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Clarify stand on PM candidate, now Shiv Sena tells BJP
Wednesday April 17, 2013 02:16:40 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: Shiv Sena
chief Uddhav Thackeray Wednesday called on the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) to take into confidence all NDA constituents before
finalising its prime ministerial candidate.
In a strongly worded editorial in the party mouthpiece Saamna,
Thackeray said the BJP has the right to nominate its candidate for
prime minister but it could not take a unilateral decision on the
issue.
"A section of the party is promoting Narendra Modi as PM
candidate. Is it really so? Top leaders like Rajnath Singh, L.K.
Advani and Sushma Swaraj must clarify on this once and for all,"
Thackeray said.
He added that the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) had
publicly stood behind Manmohan Singh as the next prime ministerial
candidate though they may hold differing views in private.
In the opposition BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), on
the other hand, there are several claimants, Thackeray noted,
likening the situation to Arjun's chariot led by several horses,
each important.
The scramble among various prime minister aspirants in the NDA
even before the elections have been announced was amusing, the
Shiv Sena leader said, urging all constituents of the alliance to
exercise restraint on the issue.
He said political pros and cons must form the basis of any
decision that the NDA takes.
"If on account of any candidate, the NDA gains five-ten seats, old
friends who stood with the BJP for years may be distanced and
result in the loss of many more seats," Thackeray warned.
The Shiv Sena has in the past expressed its willingness to support
Sushma Swaraj as the next candidate for prime minister as the late
party chief Bal Thackeray wished for.
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