11-09-2006, 10:49 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Kalyan says no to UP poll alliance </b>
Pioneer.com
Rajeev Ranjan Roy | New Delhi
Buoyed over the outstanding performance of Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh civic elections, former UP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh has ruled out any alliance for the forthcoming Assembly polls.
<b>"The results have left no scope for any electoral arrangement with any party. The BJP workers are in a position to wrest power from the ruling party on their own," </b>Singh, who played a key role in the party's resurgence in the State politics, told The Pioneer over phone from Lucknow.
Though the BJP was officially maintaining an anti-alliance posture to contest the poll, <b>there were surreptitious talks about aligning with the Rashtriya Lok Dal of Ajit Singh, who holds a major sway in Jat dominated western UP.</b>
"The people's verdict is for a better governance. The deteriorating law and order was a major issue in the civic polls and would be an important issue in the Assembly election too," Singh said.
Admitting that he too did not expect such an outstanding feat in the State, Singh said:<b> "I was expecting an encouraging result, since the BJP is always better option than SP or Bahujan Samaj Party. We won only six mayoral seats when the party was at its peak in the State. Getting eight seats against all odds means that the people of the State want us to form the next Government."</b>
In the last election, the BJP won 88 seats in the Assembly of 403 and formed the Government in alliance with the BSP. The alliance, however, fell apart when the BJP found it increasingly difficult to cope with the 'tantrums' of Mayawati. "<b>Given the prevailing mood and the BJP's galvanised cadre, we would easily win around 250 seats to get absolute majority," </b>Singh added.
<b>Singh's optimism emanates from the party's conviction to win back around 85 Assembly seats in the urban areas, where the BJP seems to have regained the traditional support base.</b> In order to further strengthen the support base, the party has decided to field the candidates from the business community.<b> "As in the civic poll, we would give tickets to the dedicated workers. No turncoats would be fielded in the fray,"</b> Singh said. <!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Singh, the BJP's prominent OBC face in Uttar Pradesh, is also the chief ministerial candidate of the party. The party president Rajnath Singh had announced to contest the poll in the state under his leadership after taking over the reins from former deputy Prime Minister LK Advani. "We will fight and win as a team. We have to make Uttar Pradesh an uttam pradesh in the real sense of the term," Singh said.
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They should not give tickets to turncoats.
Pioneer.com
Rajeev Ranjan Roy | New Delhi
Buoyed over the outstanding performance of Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh civic elections, former UP Chief Minister Kalyan Singh has ruled out any alliance for the forthcoming Assembly polls.
<b>"The results have left no scope for any electoral arrangement with any party. The BJP workers are in a position to wrest power from the ruling party on their own," </b>Singh, who played a key role in the party's resurgence in the State politics, told The Pioneer over phone from Lucknow.
Though the BJP was officially maintaining an anti-alliance posture to contest the poll, <b>there were surreptitious talks about aligning with the Rashtriya Lok Dal of Ajit Singh, who holds a major sway in Jat dominated western UP.</b>
"The people's verdict is for a better governance. The deteriorating law and order was a major issue in the civic polls and would be an important issue in the Assembly election too," Singh said.
Admitting that he too did not expect such an outstanding feat in the State, Singh said:<b> "I was expecting an encouraging result, since the BJP is always better option than SP or Bahujan Samaj Party. We won only six mayoral seats when the party was at its peak in the State. Getting eight seats against all odds means that the people of the State want us to form the next Government."</b>
In the last election, the BJP won 88 seats in the Assembly of 403 and formed the Government in alliance with the BSP. The alliance, however, fell apart when the BJP found it increasingly difficult to cope with the 'tantrums' of Mayawati. "<b>Given the prevailing mood and the BJP's galvanised cadre, we would easily win around 250 seats to get absolute majority," </b>Singh added.
<b>Singh's optimism emanates from the party's conviction to win back around 85 Assembly seats in the urban areas, where the BJP seems to have regained the traditional support base.</b> In order to further strengthen the support base, the party has decided to field the candidates from the business community.<b> "As in the civic poll, we would give tickets to the dedicated workers. No turncoats would be fielded in the fray,"</b> Singh said. <!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Singh, the BJP's prominent OBC face in Uttar Pradesh, is also the chief ministerial candidate of the party. The party president Rajnath Singh had announced to contest the poll in the state under his leadership after taking over the reins from former deputy Prime Minister LK Advani. "We will fight and win as a team. We have to make Uttar Pradesh an uttam pradesh in the real sense of the term," Singh said.
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They should not give tickets to turncoats.