Orissa Chief Minister and Bijus Janata Dal Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday said his party will not show 'any flexibility or elasticity' to support either a Congress or Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre after the Lok Sabha polls.
"My party's stand is quite clear that it is not at all flexible in giving support to either Congress or a BJP-led government at the Centre. There is no flexibility or elasticity from our part (in this regard)," Patnaik said.
He said he certainly preferred that the Congress and the BJP were not part of the government to be formed at the Centre after the elections. The chief minister also said that his party "will not take the support" of the BJP, his former ally, in the event of BJD falling short of majority in the state assembly polls.
"We are quite confident that we will secure majority on our own," he told a TV channel. He said his party chose to severe ties with the BJP after communal violence rocked Kandhamal.
"Ever since Kandhamal, it became virtually impossible to carry on with the BJP," he said when asked what prompted him to come out of the National Democratic Alliance.
Asked whether he will support Sharad Pawar or a Left leader for the post of prime minister, he said, "as long as the prime minister is reasonable and rationale to the demands of Orissa, we will consider supporting it."
Responding to the possibility of him evolving as a consensus prime minister, he said, "I have no such wild ambitions and crazy dreams."
