BJP president Amit Shah has said that his party has not decided whom to project as its chief ministerial candidate in Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. “In several States like Haryana, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Goa and Madhya Pradesh no one was projected as the CM face,” he said at a programme in lucknow.
He said that BJP is cadre-based party where, “internal democracy is still alive. It is not as if being born into a particular family will make an individual a leader. All have to work hard in my party and have to sweat it out.” On UP, he said there are innumerable possibilities in development of the country, which is not possible without the development of the State.
“BJP believes in politics of performance. The UP election will set the agenda whether the politics of the State will run on casteism, dynasty politics or appeasement. The Gujarat model is before us. Who is to be blamed for the backwardness of UP even after 70 years of independence... The BJP Government will be for the people not for any particular family, he said.