Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party is confident that Narendra Modi will win the prime ministerial elections for the second time next year, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar has come up with a plan to dethrone BJP.
The NCP head also expressed happiness over the Congress President statement that he was not interested in being India's Prime Minister.
The 78-year-old Pawar made these statements on Monday (August 27), when he was in Mumbai. The NCP president also added that whichever opposition party gets the maximum number of seats after the 2019 Lok Sabha polls can claim the top post.
"Let elections take place, remove these people (BJP) from power. We will sit together. Whichever party has got more seats can claim the prime minister's post," PTI quoted Pawar as saying.
"And I am happy that the Congress leader (Rahul Gandhi) has also said he is not in the race for the prime minister's post," he added. Pawar remarks on the head of the grand old party come just three days after the Rahul said that that he was not driven by an ambition to become Prime Minister.
"I don't have these visions. I view myself as fighting an ideological battle and this change has come in me after 2014. I realised that there's a risk to Indian state, to the Indian way of doing things and I'm defending that," Rahul had said while addressing the Indian Journalists' Association in London on Saturday (August 25).
However, this is not the first time that a leader has said that Sonia Gandhi's son is not fit to become India's PM. Opposition parties like RJD, SP and BSP have earlier implied that they do not want Rahul Gandhi to become the prime minister of India.
Here's what Pawar said
Reports have said that Pawar has also hinted that anti-BJP parties should forge alliances at the state level and then pick up a prime ministerial candidate after the Lok Sabha polls results.
The NCP chief has also insisted that the votes should be cast through ballot papers owing to allegations over EVM tampering.
