Ahmedabad, April 26: Amid a buzz that Narendra Modi may succeed LK Advani as BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, the Gujarat Chief Minister today downplayed the talk saying Advani will be the party’s PM candidate in 2014 elections too.
“Advaniji will be our prime ministerial candidate even in 2014 elections,” 58-year-old Hindutva posterboy told PTI in an interview when asked whether he would be the next in line after Advani, a view endorsed by senior BJP leaders Arun Shourie, Arun Jaitley and Venkaiah Naidu in recent days.
Asked if he will be playing a role in national politics, Modi said, “the people of Gujarat have given me responsibility to be the chief minister. I have done nothing wrong that they should throw me out of state”.
On whether BJP’s strategy to attack Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by calling him “weak” had backfired, Modi shot back saying, “The question here is not of attack on the prime minister, the question is of devaluation of prime minister’s office”.
Taking a jibe at Singh, Modi asked whether the country wanted a prime minister who was nominated and “dependent on a family” or an elected one.
Modi said, “When we are talking about devaluation of prime minister’s office three things are important. Does the country want elected or nominated prime minister? Should the prime minister come through democratic process or he should be selected by a dynasty?”
“And the third thing is elected prime minister has faith that people are with him while nominated prime minister has to remain dependent on a family. People of the country have to decided on these things and whether they want a strong PM or not,” he said.
Asked whether he considered Singh’s reply to L K Advani’s allegations as a personal attack, Modi said, “These are election times, we have said what we had to say and they have said what they had to say. Now let the people decide”.
Raking up the issue of the GUJCOC bill which is awaiting Centre’s clearance since 2003, he said “I have met prime minister almost ten times on the issue of GUJCOC bill and each time he had told me is it still pending. This shows that the government is run by someone else.” (PTI)
“Advaniji will be our prime ministerial candidate even in 2014 elections,” 58-year-old Hindutva posterboy told PTI in an interview when asked whether he would be the next in line after Advani, a view endorsed by senior BJP leaders Arun Shourie, Arun Jaitley and Venkaiah Naidu in recent days.
Asked if he will be playing a role in national politics, Modi said, “the people of Gujarat have given me responsibility to be the chief minister. I have done nothing wrong that they should throw me out of state”.
On whether BJP’s strategy to attack Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by calling him “weak” had backfired, Modi shot back saying, “The question here is not of attack on the prime minister, the question is of devaluation of prime minister’s office”.
Taking a jibe at Singh, Modi asked whether the country wanted a prime minister who was nominated and “dependent on a family” or an elected one.
Modi said, “When we are talking about devaluation of prime minister’s office three things are important. Does the country want elected or nominated prime minister? Should the prime minister come through democratic process or he should be selected by a dynasty?”
“And the third thing is elected prime minister has faith that people are with him while nominated prime minister has to remain dependent on a family. People of the country have to decided on these things and whether they want a strong PM or not,” he said.
Asked whether he considered Singh’s reply to L K Advani’s allegations as a personal attack, Modi said, “These are election times, we have said what we had to say and they have said what they had to say. Now let the people decide”.
Raking up the issue of the GUJCOC bill which is awaiting Centre’s clearance since 2003, he said “I have met prime minister almost ten times on the issue of GUJCOC bill and each time he had told me is it still pending. This shows that the government is run by someone else.” (PTI)
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