CALCUTTA, June 23: Bharatiya Janata Party president Kushabhao Thakre today said former prime minister Chandra Shekhar, who claimed that an alternative government at the Centre could be formed within seven days, could not pull down the Vajpayee-Government.Refusing to attach any importance to Shekhar's statement, Thakre told a press conference here that from the beginning efforts had been made to prevent formation of a BJP-led ministry and ``Chandra Shekhar is not in a position to bring down the Vajpayee government''.Stating that BJP-led government was not a ``prisoner of inaction like the previous United Front government'', he said it did not surrender to pressure from the west and conducted nuclear tests for national security.Referring to periodic threats from its allies like AIADMK, the BJP chief said ``in a coalition government such problems do come. You cannot run a coalition government like a one-party government. But things are being sorted out''.``The problem regarding electricity bill wasresolved at the last meeting of the coordination committee. Other problems will also be sorted out in the next meeting. There are pressures on a coalition government. If we can accommodate parties without harming the country's interest we should do it,'' he said.The BJP president denied that there was any difference of opinion between Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Union Home Minister L K Advani.On the question of construction of the temple at Ayodhya, Thakre said the issue was not on the national agenda for governance to which the BJP was committed. The Central Government had also made it clear that the temple would be built if the supreme court gave a favourable verdict, he said. He said the Congress and other opposition parties raised the issue after all these years as they had none others left. Construction of pillars for the proposed temple were being built since 1990 outside the venue and the government could not do anything about it, he said.On the performance of the BJP-ledgovernment in the last 100 days, he said that ``it is a good government and took decisions. But it was not possible to solve all problems within a few days''.Yesterday at Hyderabad, Thakre expressed confidence that the issues raised by Jayalalitha, including her uncompromising stand on dismissal of DMK government in Tamil Nadu, can be sorted out at the forthcoming meeting of coalition partners' coordination committee in Delhi on June 27.``It is a fact that the law and order situation in that state is not satisfactory but imposition of President's rule also depends on administrative aspects. The sacking of the DMK government is not entirely in the hands of BJP alone. The coordination committee will discuss it comprehensively,'' he said. On the prospects of a poll tie-up between the BJP and Telugu Desam party in Andhra Pradesh in the next Assembly elections, Thakre said that the issue would be considered at the appropriate time.
