New Delhi: After the Uttar Pradesh BJP unit chief Keshav Chandra Maurya ruled out any alliance for the state Assembly polls next year, Union minister Mahesh Sharma too stated that the saffron party would contest the elections on its own.
Mr Sharma also repeated Mr Maurya’s earlier assertions that the BJP would stick to the development agenda.
Claiming that the BJP will get over 265 out of 403 seats in UP, Mr Sharma said the BJP’s focus during the campaign would be on development, good governance and rooting out corruption. He added that the contentious issues, including the Ram temple, would not be on the party agenda for the state polls.
“Construction of Ram Temple is the wish of millions of people as a matter of faith. We do not want to make it a political issue. It is not on our political agenda. But people of this country want a Ram temple at Ayodhya. We want to do it (construct the temple) either by consensus mode or verdict by court of law,” Mr Sharma said.
Admitting that the morale of the BJP is better after the win in the Assam polls, Mr Sharma said party leaders are considering the elections in the politically crucial state as a “special task that has to be accomplished.”
He, however, ruled out having truck with any party either before or after elections. “We will not have any alliance with any of the parties, whether it is Lok Dal (INLD) or any other party. No pre-poll, no post-poll alliance of any sort,” he said.
