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BJP to focus on bigger share in votes

The party is gearing up to face the Lok Sabha elections in 2009: Jaitley

Lucknow: The Bharatiya Janata Party has said that it had taken its defeat at the recent Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh as a challenge and was gearing up to face the Lok Sabha elections in 2009.

Addressing a meeting of the State office bearers, losers and winners in the Assembly polls here over the week-end, BJP General Secretary and State in-charge Arun Jaitley said there had been enough review meetings to analyse the causes of the party’s debacle in the Assembly polls.

“We have had enough review meetings... Now it is time to think how the party’s vote percentage will increase,” he said.

Mr. Jaitley said the chiefs of the two main parties in the State, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party, were facing cases in the courts and very soon the people would be fed up with them.

The BJP leader said that the “new found love” between the Congress and the BSP would be confined only to the Presidential polls as the latter was set to fight from all seats in the next Parliamentary elections in the State.

State BJP president Kesri Nath Tripathi could not take part in the meeting owing to illness. Senior party leaders including Lalji Tandon, Kalraj Mishra and Om Prakash Singh were present. -- PTI

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