By IANS,
New Delhi : With the assembly election results to be out next week, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Friday said the party has done its best and he was very hopeful the results would be good.
“We have done the best we could do. I am very positive that results will be good,” Gadkari said talking to reporters at Indian Women Press Corps here Friday.
Talking about Uttar Pradesh specifically, he said: “Our situation in the last polls was not good, many people left. We are now making the party stand again.”
In a lengthy interaction with women journalists here, Gadkari, however, refused to state if the results of the assembly polls will have any impact on his likely continuing as party chief for a second term.
Gadkari’s tenure as party president gets over in 2013. He is likely to continue for a second term to oversee the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
He refused to comment if the party will announce its prime ministerial candidate before the Lok Sabha polls.
Asked about the impact of the polls on central politics, Gadkari said the BJP had no intention of making the central government unstable and it was its own allies that were doing so.
Asked about Modi’s absence in the polls and whether he was an important face for the party outside Gujarat, Gadkari evaded a direct reply, saying Modi was “busy with the Sadbhavana (amity) mission”.
Blaming the government for destroying both economy and agriculture through “faulty policy”, he said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government had lost its credibility and ability to take decisions.