Mumbai: NCP chief Sharad Pawar Tuesday said he did not see the possibility of all non-BJP parties coming together at the national level to take on the Narendra Modi government at the Centre. He, however, said that he was trying to bring various parties on a common platform.
“I do not see the possibility of a uniform national alliance since political situation on the ground varies from state to state. I am talking to different parties to bring them on a common platform,” Mr Pawar said during an interaction in Mumbai.
Asserting that Narendra Modi will not be the Prime Minister after the next year’s Lok Sabha polls, and that the current situation in the country was similar to the one in 2004, he said, “No single party can provide an alternative. I do not think Narendra Modi will be Prime Minister after the Lok Sabha polls.”
To a question on attempts to project the 2019 Lok Sabha polls as a “Modi versus Gandhi contest”, Mr Pawar said, “That is the BJP’s strategy which will not work”.
“During all my interactions with Rahul Gandhi so far, I realised there was no insistence on being the PM candidate face, but only change of the present government,” he said.
