Dehra Dun: Hitting back at the opposition, Uttarakhand chief minister Vijay Bahuguna on Wednesday said the BJP should not fear about any poaching attempt from his side and asked the party to put its own house in order first. “Let them (BJP) feel safe. I am not going to poach upon them,” Bahuguna told PTI in an interview when asked whether he is in touch with some BJP MLAs for getting a seat vacated for himself to enter the Assembly.
Bahuguna, however, made it clear that he was not approaching anybody from BJP and nor has he authorised anybody from the Congress to approach the BJP in this regard.
“These are all conjunctures and kite flying,” he said. Bahuguna’s comments came days after the BJP took its MLAs to Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh apparently fearing poaching by Congress. However, Bahuguna said he has some friends and well-wishers everywhere in the state.
“I am friendly with everybody in all parties,” he said. On BJP’s demand to seek a trust vote, Bahuguna said the party should first set its own house in order. “They [BJP] are ridiculing us for infighting in our party. But inner fighting in BJP is much more severe than us. They are yet to decide their leader of the opposition,” Bahuguna said. (PTI)