Sushma Swaraj endorses Narendra Modi as PM candidate

Campaigning for the upcoming Gujarat elections in Vadodara, senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj  came out in open support for Chief Minister Narendra Modi as a potential prime ministerial candidate for the next general elections. "There are no boundaries for the post of Prime Minister. I feel Narendra Modi is capable to become the next PM and I have no doubts about it. He is both capable and suitable for holding the PM's post,"  Swaraj said

   
"BJP will make a hat-trick by winning the Gujarat assembly elections for the third time in a row," Swaraj said.She also said that "Congress will be defeated in the parliamentary election scheduled to be held in 2014".

By endorsing Modi as the best choice for PM's candidate ,Sushma  has sorted out the tussle  of leadership in BJP as everybody was guessing who is the face of the BJP - Narendra Modi, Arun Jaitely, Sushma Swaraj, Nitin Gadkari or the now-almost-forgotten LK Advani?

On his birthday Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani  said he is not a contender for the prime minister’s post, but he did not rule out the possibility of taking charge of the party once again.

Right now the BJP has kept the issue of Prime Ministerial candidate on the backburner  as the entire BJP force is being applied to win the Gujarat elections. Voting will be held in two phases on December 13 and 17 and results will be declared on December 20.  Modi is contesting from the Maninagar seat in Ahmedabad and faces suspended top police officer Sanjiv Bhatt's wife Shweta Bhatt of the Congress. Mr Modi has been winning from the seat since 2002.

But not everybody in the NDA  want Narendra Modi to be projected as prime minister, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar had made a  strong pitch for a "secular" prime ministerial candidate for NDA.

On September ,Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray had endorsed  Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj as the only leader in the ally BJP who would make a "deserving" Prime Minister.