Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray Saturday urged the BJP to let Narendra Modi continue unhindered as Gujarat chief minister till 2017.
"Narendra Modi has publicly declared that he has no prime ministerial ambition. He has been given public mandate to rule Gujarat till 2017 and would continue to serve the people of that state," Thackeray said in an editorial in the party mouthpiece "Saamna".
At a function in Gujarat Sep 5, Modi told a young school student that those who dreamt of becoming prime minister were often destroyed.
"Instead of harbouring such dreams, I think it is more important to achieve something for the country," said Modi, who has been made the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) campaign chief for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
Thackeray lauded Modi for his stance.
He, however, said that though the Gujarat strongman had probably succeeded in satisfying the curiosity of the school student on the issue, "but how will he explain this to the BJP big bosses who are bent upon declaring him as the next PM candidate?"
