【Nagpur】The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari is expecting BJP-Shiv Sena alliance to gain 40 seats of a total of 48 in Maharashtra. He told a local newspaper reporter.
What about the working of your alliance with the Shiv Sena? Your meetings with Raj Thackeray of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena [MNS] created some ripples.
The subject is already closed. Actually, at the time [of our meeting], the Shiv Sena-BJP combine had already declared its candidates; so there was no question of giving any seats to them [MNS]. Second, the NDA has already decided that without every party's permission, no new member will join [the alliance]. I told Raj Thackeray why do you only want to be a kingmaker for the victory of the Congress alliance because the Congress-NCP benefits from the division of votes.
So, Raj Thackeray agreed not to put up candidates against the BJP barring in a couple of seats?
Three or four [MNS] candidates are there [contesting against the BJP]. It is not a fact that he is not fielding candidates against the BJP. My proposal to him was that the MNS should not contest the Lok Sabha election but support the leadership of Narendra Modi. In the national interest, they [the MNS] should decide not to contest the Lok Sabha election but only the Assembly [election].
Is the Aam Aadmi Party going to be a factor in the elections? The AAP and its candidate from Nagpur, have made very serious corruption allegations against you and will that impact the contest here?
Not at all. These are baseless allegations. I am not bothered about these allegations and I am not going to give any answer to these allegations because the people of Nagpur know me.
○Corporate sector fuelling Modi's campaign: Sibal
【New Delhi】The corporate sector is fuelling the campaign of BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi because it wants "freebies" from him which he has extended in Gujarat, Law Minister Kapil Sibal said today.
He also said BJP has failed to reach a "credible" alliance in various states even as he termed as "good riddance" some of the Congress leaders joining the opposition party ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. He attacked BJP for its "arrogance" and being dismissive of Congress. "Pink papers are with Modi, you know that. The corporate sector is with Modi. They are fuelling the campaign," he told Karan Thapar in his Devil's Advocate programme on CNN-IBN. He was responding to suggestions that the Sensex has gone up after Modi was anointed as BJP's PM candidate.
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‘BJP-Sena combine expects 40 of 48 seats in Maharashtra’
Corporate sector fuelling Modi's campaign: Sibal
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