PM post not vacant for next 10 years: BJP general secretary Ram Madhav
CHENNAI: BJP general secretary Ram Madhav mocked at DMK president M. K. Stalin’s proposal backing Congress president Rahul Gandhi as a Prime Ministerial candidate for 2019 Lok Sabha elections and said the PM’s post is not “vacant” as Narendra Modi will continue to be Prime Minister for the next ten years.
“In the so called mahagatbandhan there are half-a-dozen leaders who think they are the future Prime Ministers — whose future comes when who knows, good luck to all of them, may be one day, — but its not vacant for the next ten years,” Ram Madhav said on Tuesday.
Modiji, Ram Madhav said, would remain PM for the next 10 years. He said DMK chief M K Stalin's proposal had not found resonance even within the parties the Congress wants in the proposed grand alliance.
Speaking to reporters here he said former DMK chief M. Karunanidhi had criticised former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi saying that he will sell the country, though his son and now DMK chief M. K. Stalin sees Rahul Gandhi as a capable leader who can run the country and Stalin now welcomes Rahul Gandhi.
Also, Karunanidhi had earned the respect of leaders across the nation for opposing the Emergency imposed by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975. At that time, Karunanidhi was close to Janata Party, he added.
On Sunday while speaking at the unveiling of late Karunanidhi’s statue, Mr. Stalin had proposed Rahul Gandhi’s name as a Prime Ministerial candidate for 2019 polls. He had said Rahul Gandhi has a capability of defeating fascist Modi government. The event had turned into a show of Opposition unity as Opposition leaders such as UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu, his Kerala counterpart Pinarayi Vijayan were present at the event.
Earlier in the day, the Tamil Nadu BJP put out a tweet with a poster highlighting the contrasting views of late DMK stalwart M. Karunanidhi and his son M. K. Stalin on the Congress leadership.
Despite DMK’s Sunday event being a solemn occasion, marking the unveiling of Karunanidhi’s statue, the occasion was used to “attack the Centre and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling him names and naming the future PM,” Madhav further said.
