'Give us 2/3rd majority'

Venkaiah Naidu said in order to achieve many 'big' tasks, NDA needed a bigger mandate.

In order to accomplish many 'big' tasks set for the next five years requiring important legislative and political initiatives, NDA needed a bigger mandate, BJP President M Venkaiah Naidu said and appealed to the electorate to give a decisive two-thirds majority in to the party in the Lok Sabha polls.

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With the second phase of polling underway and the trend shown by all polls making clear who the winner would be, BJP's appeal to the people was simple, "to give us a decisive majority two-thirds majority," Naidu told a press conference here.

Many big tasks like river-linking project, reservation for women in Parliament and State legislatures, effective financial and administrative empowerment of panchayati raj institutions through a Constitutional amendment, may involve important legislative and political initiatives, he said.

Claiming that AB Vajpayee's return as the Prime Minister of the country for the record fourth time was a certainty, Naidu said NDA has a task of bringing in a legislation on the foreign origin issue, on holding the posts of President, Vice-president, Prime Minister and Chief Justice.

This legislation was not aimed at Congress President Sonia Gandhi, but it could be someone else in the future, Naidu said.