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BJP can't form government in UP, says Rajnath
Monday March 05, 2012 03:44:25 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow: In a
stunning admission a day before vote count, Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) leader Rajnath Singh admitted Monday that his party may not
be able to form a government in Uttar Pradesh.
"The results will be bright for the BJP, there is no doubt about
it. We fought to get a majority. But candidly speaking, it appears
we might fall short of the numbers required to form the
government," the former chief minister told IANS.
This is the first candid public admission by any BJP leader that
it may not be able to take office in the country's most populous
state where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held sway for years.
The millions of votes cast in Uttar Pradesh along with those
polled in Goa, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Manipur will be counted in
these five states Tuesday.
Most exit polls after the close of Uttar Pradesh's seven-phased
balloting have predicted that the BJP would finish third in the
four-horse race, behind the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj
Party (BSP). The polls gave the BJP more seats than the Congress.
Rajnath Singh, 60, a former party president, said while the BJP
was set to improve its tally in the 403-member assembly, it would
fall short of the half-way mark.
Asked about the possibility of the BJP aligning with the BSP or
Samajwadi Party to form a coalition government, Rajnath Singh
ruled out such conjectures.
"The BJP has all along maintained that there will be no truck with
any party, neither before the polls nor after."
Rajnath Singh insisted that the record setting high voting in
Uttar Pradesh was undoubtedly a "definite booster for the party's
prospects in UP".
He attributed the successful voter turnout to campaigns by social
activist Anna Hazare, spiritual guru Ravi Shankar and yoga guru
Baba Ramdev.
Asked if corruption was a major campaign issue for voters, he said
it was "important but not a major" issue.
Rajnath Singh, who began his carrer as a physics lecturer, joined
the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as a teenager. He was the
chief minister of Uttar Pradesh from October 2000 to March 2002.
He became the BJP president in 2005, and was succeeded by
incumbent Nitin Gadkari in 2009.
Rajnath Singh is known to be ranged against senior party colleague
and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti, who ran the
BJP campaign in Uttar Pradesh.
He admitted that the BJP's decision to admit tainted BSP leader
Babu Singh Kushwaha ahead of the election harmed his party.
"I can safely say the entry of Kushwaha did not help us."
As for possible damage, he said it would be assessed after the
election results became known.
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