Pawar has great ability to become PM: NCP

Pawar saheb has a great ability to become PM,but all depends on the number of seats required for it, NCP general secretary D P Tripathi said in response to queries at a press conference after the partys Extended Working Committee meeting. He was quick to cite the example of I K Gujral and Chandra Shekhar who had become PM because of circumstances. As far as the NCP is concerned,we would like him Pawar to become PM. Politics is pregnant with possibilities, said Tripathi.

The NCP,which is demanding 26 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra and 15 in other states under seat sharing arrangements with the Congress,sought to put pressure on the Congress to convene the meeting of the UPA Coordination Committee to decide the electoral strategy of the ruling combine. The NCP will finalise its candidates by February 6 and would announce their names by February-end. The party intends to contest 45 to 50 Lok Sabha seats in the entire country in the forthcoming election.

While the NCP is unlikely to have any tie-up with the Left in West Bengal and Kerala because of the Lefts decision not to ally with any UPA constituents Tripathi said the party would support the Left candidates in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. The NCP leader clarified that if his partys talks with the Congress failed in some states,the NCP would look for alternatives but would go only with secular democratic parties.