“We are not looking at any particular position. We are a part of UPA. Let's not draw a particular conjecture. It's important that people's mandate has to be respected, whatever it may be. We had a mandate for 10 years, we have done whatever we could in the best interest of the country.
“Therefore in the coming five years, whatever the results, it should lead to a stable government which could decisively govern for the next five years,” the outgoing Union Minister said.
On NCP's role, he said the party has, throughout in the last 15 years of its existence, behaved and acted as a responsible political party.