A day after the AAP Government stepped down in Delhi, the BJP on Saturday said it was ready to face fresh elections while the party hinted its reluctance to form Government. The BJP leader Dr Harsh Vardhan said the lieutenant-Governor of Delhi has to take a call on the current political situation.
“There is no over-enthusiasm about forming the Government. Right now the ball is in the lieutenant-Governor’s court. let him decide. We will happily accept any situation. We are also ready to go to polls even if they take place next week,” Vardhan said.
Specifically asked whether the BJP would accept an invitation by the lieutenant-Governor to form the Government, Vardhan said senior leaders of the party would take a call if such a situation arose. “We will discuss the matter with senior leaders,” he said, adding there was no pressure from party MlAs about forming the Government. He also denied the possibility of forming a Government with support from the AAP dissidents saying Delhi’s governance could not be taken lightly. As to whether the party was in favour of dissolving the House, he said, “Collectively, we are in a situation where no one wants to go to elections within three months.”
The BJP leaders also hit out at Kejriwal saying the AAP leader now ‘aspires to become the Prime Minister’ and was ‘fooling the people’. He accused the AAP of playing into the hands of the Congress and foreign elements with the sole objective of preventing Narendra Modi from coming to power in the Parliamentary polls.
Meanwhile, the BJP, which emerged as the single largest party by winning 31 seats in Assembly elections, held a meeting on Saturday to discuss the party’s future course of action. State unit president Vijay Goel said that the party would launch an agitation at Jantar Mantar on February 18 to expose the AAP. “This (resignation) was scripted and planned,” Goel said.