Ally Janata Dal (United) on Monday refused to read much into BJP president Nitin Gadkari’s remarks about Gujarat CM Narendra Modi having the potential to become either the chief of the party or its Prime Ministerial candidate in the next general election.
JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav told reporters, “2014 is far away. By then much water would have flown in the Ganges. Let us see what happens in future.” The NDA ally prefers to keep the BJP CM at an arms length for obvious electoral reasons and even objected to Modi campaigning during the last year’s Bihar polls.
Asked whether his party has objection to Modi being projected as BJP’s PM candidate, Yadav repeated that “everything was there” in the reply that he had given. “We have nothing to comment on what somebody has said. This is their party issue. You better ask the BJP,” was Yadav’s refrain to repeated queries on whether his party was comfortable with the idea of BJP projecting Modi.
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