New Delhi: The opinion poll survey had suggested that the country is rooting for Narendra Modi as prime minister in 2014 Lok Sabha election.
Notify that National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah’s “candid” admission of the reality of India’s democratic system. The union minister said at it was in the hands of voters to decide whether Narendra Modi should be the prime minister or not.
The statement of Farooq Abdullah needs scrutiny also because he had, as recently as October last year, said that Narendra Modi as Prime Minister will be “dangerous and damaging” for the nation’s secular ethos.
Abdullah said, “National Conference (NC) has nothing to do with either Modi or BJP or Sangh (Parivar). We want to stay far and would not get into any agreements with them. That (Modi as PM) will be dangerous and damaging for the Indian secular ethos.”
The NCP, which shares power with the Congress in Maharashtra, has been a loyal ally of the Congress despite the very public dream of party boss Sharad Pawar to be prime minister of the country.
Pawar is one of the most astute politicians in the country known to have the knack to judge the directions of the wind much before others sense it.
Praful Patel, the union minister had created a flutter by asserting that the time has come to lay the 2002 Gujarat riots issue to rest.
Patel said over the view on the role of the Narendra Modi-led Gujarat government in the 2002 riots, “The fact is that we are in a era were we believe that the judicial system is the final recourse to getting justice on any issue or to bring finality to any controversy. If the judicial system has given any pronouncement, I think we ought to respect it and not question it further.”
Bureau Report
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