Narendra Modi seeks Murli Manohar Joshi's blessings after being announced BJP's PM candidate
Hours before BJP's Parliamentary Board meeting in Delhi, senior party leader Murli Manohar Joshi had called Gujarat Chief Minister
Narendra Modi as "
chokh maal" (best product).
"Namo (Modi) is BJP's chokha maal," the veteran BJP leader told reporters, when asked about L K Advani's reservations on declaring Modi as party's prime ministerial nominee.
"The party has put him before the nation, whether people like him or not, time will tell," Joshi said, before leaving for New Delhi to take part in the meeting.
Along with Mr Advani and Sushma Swaraj, Mr Joshi was earlier believed to be opposed to the announcement of Mr Modi as BJP's prime ministerial candidate.
Later this evening in New Delhi, BJP chief Rajnath Singh announced that Mr Modi has been chosen as party's prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. (
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On Mr Advani's opposition to the Gujarat Chief Minister's elevation, Mr Joshi said that the Parliamentary Board's proposal should be acceptable to all. "If there is a proposal then it should be vetted at the earliest....Parliamentary Board is competent to take all types of decisions," he said.
Mr Joshi had come in Sagar to take part in a teachers' felicitation programme organised by BJP MP Bhupendra Singh.