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Vol. 4 Num 316 Mon. April 19, 2004  
   
International


'No need to name Vajpayee's successor'


Asserting that there was no need to name Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's successor at this stage, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said its focus at present was on the "success in polls and not the successor".

"There is no need to name the next person because the first person is very much there. There is no dearth of leadership in the party," BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu said in an interview onboard a special aircraft en route to Bidar yesterday (Apr 17, 2004) where he addressed an election rally along with National Democratic Alliance (NDA) convenor and Defence Minister George Fernandes.