By NNN-PTI,
New Delhi : Jockeying for prime ministership has begun among rival alliances even before the finalisation of the candidates for the Lok Sabha (Lower House) polls.
BSP supremo Mayawati has invited leaders of the newly- formed Third Front for a dinner meeting here on March 15 with her party keen to project her as the PM candidate.
In the ruling UPA, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar has caused a flutter by using the Marathi card to project his prime ministerial ambitions.
Mayawati has never shied away from projecting her prime ministerial ambitions and has given enough suggestions that she was a bigger leader than Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who is also the UPA chairperson.
Her representative at the Front’s launching rally yesterday at Tumkur near here and party general secretary Satish Chandra Mishra, has said “It is the aim of the BSP to make Mayawati prime minister.
“There is a feeling among the people of this state (Maharashtra) that number of states got opportunity like Andhra, Gujarat, Karnataka (to occupy the Prime Minister’s office). So Maharashtra should get opportunity as well,” he told NDTV on Friday.
At the same time, he said “one should not think of becoming Prime Minister when you are contesting from limited number of seats”.