PM favours LS elections in April

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Monday indicated that he favours Lok Sabha elections in April/May.

BJP spokesman Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters that the prime minister, in his concluding remarks at the Bharatiya Janata Party's national executive meet in Hyderabad, said, "If elections are held by April, then it will be good."

Earlier, the party's national executive unanimously adopted a resolution recommending early Lok Sabha polls.

Prime Minister Vajpayee, in his concluding remarks, accepted the recommendation and asked Finance Minister Jaswant Singh to go in for a vote-on-account in Parliament.

The PM also pointed out that the BJP, which began its stint in power way back in 1996 as an "untouchable" party, was now a part and parcel of the Indian political system. He hailed BJP workers for their efforts in ensuring the party a thumping victory in the recent assembly elections.

Vajpayee said new sections of society were joining the country's mainstream and the party.

Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani said that normally most governments face an anti-incumbency factor but this time, the NDA government was facing a pro-incumbency factor. He also said the NDA had proved itself capable of providing good governance.

Details of the political resolution are yet to be released to the media.

With inputs from PTI