NDA leaders don't agree with Advani's blog post

A day after senior leader L K Advani wrote on his blog that a non-Congress and non-BJP government was possible after the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, leaders of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Monday said they didn’t agree with his “prediction”.

They said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA would become the single largest alliance after the Lok Sabha elections. Although NDA leaders denied any rift within the alliance, they said such blog posts should have been avoided.

“Advani is the NDA working chairperson, but I do not agree with the predictions he has made. UPA (United Progressive Alliance) will go after the elections and NDA will become the single largest alliance,” said Sharad Yadav, the NDA convener and president of the Janata Dal (United).

“Advani is an elder statesman and so many a time he rises above party lines while making comments. But I am not in agreement with his prediction,” he added.

Advani had said on his blog there was a possibility of a non- Congress, non-BJP Prime Minister supported by either of the two parties after the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

“The shape which the national polity has acquired in the past two and a half decades makes it practically impossible for any government to be formed in New Delhi which does not have the support either of the Congress or of the BJP. A third front government can be ruled out. A non-Congress, non-BJP prime minister heading a government supported by one of these two principal parties is, however, feasible. This has happened in the past also,” Advani wrote on his blog.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is also not in favour of Advani writing so many blogs and had earlier told the senior parliamentarian not to make such comments.