Click to play videoNew Delhi: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Hazaribagh MP Yashwant Sinha has made it clear that there will be a succession plan announced soon within the party.
In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN National Bureau Chief Bhupendra Chaubey, Sinha also clarified that there was nothing wrong in the BJP targeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a weak prime minister.
Bhupendra Chaubey: Let me talk about LK Advani. He has been the deputy prime minister, Leader of Opposition for five years. Why do you think Mr Advani is being forced to take up the position of Leader of Opposition again?
Yashwant Sinha: All decisions are taken and should be taken in their own time. I am sure that just as there was smooth succession, there has been smooth succession so far in the BJP, there will be a smooth succession even in the future. For the time being... I will take you back when Mr Advani had not been declared the prime ministerial candidate by the BJP and the NDA, so many questions were being raised. Is Mr Advani going to be made the prime ministerial candidate? Is he not going to be made? Everybody has forgotten that chapter. So a transition takes place smoothly. All I can assure you is as and when and if at all a transition were to take place, it will take place smoothly.
Bhupendra Chaubey: Some of the allies as Shiromani Akali Dal have already started questioning the way the BJP campaign was created... where there were several attacks launched against the Prime Minister. Would you agree that was a faulty strategy?
Yashwant Sinha: I won't accept that. No! It wasn't. If we would have succeeded then this would have been described as a masterstroke.
Bhupendra Chaubey: But then nothing succeeds like success...
Yashwant Sinha: Nothing succeeds like success. So when you don't succeed others try to find all kinds of reasons.
Bhupendra Chaubey: Do you still adhere that Manmohan Singh was and continues to be a weak Prime Minister despite the fact that he is now only the second person other than Jawaharlal Nehru to come back after a five-year term.
Yashwant Sinha: That's true but how much did Manmohan Singh campaign? How much is Manmohan Singh responsible for this victory of the Congress party? The Congress party is already giving credit to Rahul Gandhi
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