VADODARA, Aug 29: The manifesto of the National Democratic Alliance will be implemented even if the Bharatiya Janata Party gets a majority on its own. The BJP, said party leader and Union Home Minister L K Advani, had no intention of interfering with the NDA manifesto.Speaking to journalists here on Sunday, Advani said that though confident of a massive victory, the BJP would form a government with its NDA allies and implement the alliance's manifesto.Advani was upbeat on the party's expected performance, saying the issue was not whether the BJP would win but by how much. ``There seems to be a consensus among the people that the Congress should be given a crushing defeat. It seems the country is going to defang Congress so that it does not destabilise other governments'', he said.He reiterated, however, the BJP's demand to pass legislation that would provide for fixed tenures of the legislature. This, he added, would be good for democracy and the politics of the country; all European counties except the UK followed this practice, he said.There was no question of dismissing the Orissa government or taking any other action against it in the wake of the recent violence there, the Home Minister said. Though he felt sorry for the violence, he was against dismissal and the Centre was against the ``misusing'' of Article 356''.On the Kargil issue, Advani said there had been no failure on the part of the intelligence agencies. The Centre, he added, had set up a committee to dispel all the confusion surrounding the issue and to continue the practice of a transparent government. Asked about the recently proposed special force for the Kargil sector, he said similar arrangements would be made for the entire border, including Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir.Advani categorically said that he was in favour of the Narmada project for Gujarat and that he himself would be make an earnest bid to convince the authorities, including the Prime Minister, to expedite the case. ``It indeed is an important issue and Gujarat needs its urgent resolution'', he said. About Sonia Gandhi's remarks that the BJP itself was to blame for its fall, he sarcastically said he still remembered how the Congress and Laloo Prasad Yadav (RJD) had told the Parliament that they would avoid fresh elections by forming an alternative government in ``two minutes''. ``I am baffled by her remarks'', he said.Advani, who said he would start campaigning in his constituency - Gandhinagar - on September 1, also lampooned the Congress for going back on its Panchmarhi resolution in which it had resolved not to pull down any government and not to accept the help of small regional parties. ``The Congress has been the principal source of instability in the country, and therefore it should be taught to remain in the Opposition for some years'', he concluded.About the BJP wave, he held a consensus was evident that the country wanted to give a renewed mandate for Prime Minister Vajpayee as there had always been a hung Parliament since 1971 and country now sought a stable government today.
