‘Modi should fight LS seat from Kerala’
Even as the BJP sees its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has a pan-India appeal, the Congress on Monday suggested that the Gujarat chief minister should test his popularity by fighting a Lok Sabha seat from Kerala.
“Narendra Modi will lose the Lok Sabha elections if he fights from Kerala,” said a senior AICC and the sitting Lok Sabha member.
“The BJP has not been able to open its account in Kerala despite being optimistic in every election. If the BJP cannot win a single seat from Kerala how can Narendra Modi,” he asked.
Mr Modi’s charisma is not visible not only in Kerala but in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal as well besides north-eastern states.
The BJP could gain strength in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in the coming Lok Sabha election not on his Gujarat model of development but on some other factors, party insiders said.
Mr Modi will have to fight the general election after his projection as the BJP’s PM candidate.
As per the earlier reports he would contest t from two seats — one from Gujarat (Ahmedabad East) and another from Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow or Varanasi). All these seats have been won by the BJP. But before that he would have to decide his successor for the post of Gujarat CM. Reports coming from Gujarat suggest that business captains will have a decisive say in this regard.
Mr Modi cannot enter Parliament through the Rajya Sabha route.
The BJP chief Rajnath Singh said in Chandigarh that the party’s central election committee will decide from which seat Mr Modi will contest. “These things are decided by party’s Central Election Committee and any individual cannot say whether he can fight from a place A or B.”
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