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Rajnath Singh virtually anoints Modi as PM candidate

New York, Jul 22: Ruling himself out of the prime ministerial race, BJP President Rajnath Singh yesterday virtually anointed Narendra Modi as its man to the top job if the party comes to power after

PTI Updated on: July 22, 2013 6:21 IST
There is no ambiguity in the BJP unlike the Congress camp in the matter and BJP is in favour of Telengana. But it's not in favour of bifurcation of UP and other states as Telengana issue is a totally different one.



“BJP government will consider instituting an inquiry commission to go into the corruption and scandals of the Congress government and will provide transparent and honest government with people's interest as uppermost,” he said.
 
Ananth Kumar, BJP general secretary and chairman of Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee who is accompanying Singh on the US tour, said the four member BJP delegation will meet members of the US Senate and House of Representatives from both sides of the aisle - Democratic Party and the Republicans especially members of the Congressional Caucus of Indians and Indian Americans at the Capitol Hill.
 
Kumar said Singh's visit to the US is a two track outreach programme - to assess the mood of three million Indian-Americans across the nation who occupies important and powerful positions besides being opinion makers. It's part of outreach programme to meet the Indian Diaspora.
 
The other two members of the delegation are Trivedi, party spokesman and advisor to the BJP President and Jolly, BJP's national convener for Overseas Affairs.  Jolly said, “We (BJP) want to work closely with Non Resident Indians.”

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