NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Akhilesh Yadav said on Saturday that he was not in the race to become Prime Minister but wanted to make one.
Uttar Pradesh has always given the country a prime minister and anybody wishing to be so has to come to the state, like Narendra Modi did, he said.
Speaking at the India Today Conclave here, the former Chief Minister also played down the remarks of his father Mulayam Singh Yadav wishing Modi in Lok Sabha that he comes back as the Prime Minister again.
“I do not wish to become the Prime Minister, I am not in the race, but I want to make one…We know how to make a PM,” he said.
“We will be glad if someone from Uttar Pradesh becomes the Prime Minister,” he said when asked if he wanted BSP supremo Mayawati to become PM.
Akhilesh claimed that the Congress was part of the ‘mahagathbandhan (grand alliance)’ in Uttar Pradesh, but could not give an answer on how the SP and the Congress were contesting the Lok Sabha polls alone and against each.
It is not the “fear” of Modi that brought the SP and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) together, but the fight to save the Constitution and the country, he said.
(AGENCIES)
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