BJP's assessment of JD(S) was wrong: Venkaiah Naidu

POWERLESS IN KARNATAKA: BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu says JD(S) would pay for breaking trust.

        

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Karan Thapar: A wrong assessment is a mistake.

Venkaiah Naidu: Try to understand, you come before the people and make a solemn assurance to the people that you will abide by what you are saying…

Karan Thapar: A party licked you and you didn’t have the capacity to know that they were lying. You got taken in.

Venkaiah Naidu: I am not an astrologer, I don’t have horoscope of everybody.

Karan Thapar: What about judgment and wisdom.

Venkaiah Naidu: The judgment and wisdom is that the son said I have nothing to do with my father, I am coming out, and there is non-Congress blood in me. I believed him.

Karan Thapar: So you got trapped.

Venkaiah Naidu: There is no question of trapping. After all it’s all experiment in politics.

Karan Thapar: He got the better of you.

Venkaiah Naidu: He definitely—he enjoyed it. If he doesn’t transfer the power then you will see what is going to happen in the future—for his future also.

Karan Thapar: Let’s broaden the canvass and let’s start with the Centre. The recent national executive held in Bhopal was supposed to position the party for the forthcoming elections. Yet a mysterious letter from Atal Bihari Vajpayee, which he didn’t sign and may be he didn’t even write at all, has divided the party over the leadership issue. It’s a setback just when you didn’t need it.

Venkaiah Naidu: Not at all, there was no discussion about the letter, there was no discussion about the leadership.

Karan Thapar: Not at the convention but outside, in the press, through the press and within the party the discussion has gone on. In fact there is a division.

Venkaiah Naidu: It was in the media, there was no division in the party or in the executive. The discussions went on about preparation for the coming elections. We have chalked out our future programme and the party is very clear about the future.

Karan Thapar: I am afraid when you say it’s in the media not only are you correct, you are more right than you actually realised because all your party colleagues exposed their differences to the media. You and Jaswant Singh endorsed Advani’s claim to leadership; Yashwant Sinha, Murli Manohar Joshi and Rajnath Singh made an absolutely clear they don’t, as a result the five of you have given the impression that the party is tearing itself apart.