In a surprising admission just a fortnight before the start of the Lok Sabha elections, senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today voiced doubts whether the party-led NDA will get a majority on its own.
Swaraj, who is contesting the elections from Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh for which she is the party in-charge, however said that if the NDA emerged as the single largest coalition then with post-poll alliances the BJP-led grouping will be able to form the government.
"I am not sure that NDA will get majority on its own. But if NDA emerges as single largest coalition then with post-poll alliances we will be able to form government with that," Swaraj told reporters in Bhopal.
An apparently embarrassed BJP sought to quickly snub Sushma saying the NDA will form the government.
"We are strong, we are fighting under the leadership of Mr Advani and we should be there to form the government," BJP spokesman Siddarth Nath Singh said in New Delhi.
In reply to a question, Sushma said there was no question of the BJP distancing itself from Varun Gandhi, the party candidate from Pilibhit for the Lok Sabha elections, following his controversial hate speeches which saw the stringent NSA being slapped on him. Sushma had earlier suggested that the BJP was not inclined to utilise the services of Varun for its poll campaign outside Pilibhit.
