New Delhi, August 6: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) patriarch L?K?Advani has said that the idea of a non-Congress and non-BJP candidate for the highest job, who has support of the two principal parties was “feasible”.
Noting that such a development has taken place in the past, the BJP patriarch, however, cautioned that it would not be a stable one.
“As the Prime Ministership of Charan Singh, Chandrashekharji, Deve Gowdaji and Inder Kumar Gujralji (supported by Congress) as also of Vishwanath Pratap Singhji (supported by BJP) have shown, such governments have never lasted long,” he said.
Advani’s comment in his latest blog post which shared his views on the upcoming 2014 Lok Sabha polls, however, drew jibes from the Congress and the Samajwadi Party that the BJP had given up hopes of winning the polls.
Bihar Chief Minister and leader of NDA key ally Nitish Kumar’s continuous opposition to Modi as prime ministerial candidate seems to have nudged Advani to post the comment.
Advani asserted that “there has been stability at the Centre only when the Government has had either a Congress or a BJP Prime Minister.
Claiming that the national politics in the past two decades has made it "practically impossible" for any Central government to be formed without the support of either the Congress or the BJP, Advani ruled out the idea of a Third Front government in 2014.
Meanwhile, the Congress and the Samajwadi Party took a dig at Advani’s blog post saying that the BJP leader has conceded defeat even before the race has begun for the 2014 LS polls.
“By saying there is a possibility that there can't be a BJP Prime Minister in 2014, he has conceded defeat," Congress leader Rajiv Shukla told reporters here.
SP leader Mohan Singh echoed Shukla when he said: “The BJP has conceded defeat even before the elections.”
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