Speaking to media persons here, Naidu made it clear that both the parties had come closer to restrict the electoral growth of Congress, and TDP had not been inducted into National Democratic Alliance (NDA). However, TDP will extend its full support to the BJP-led NDA government at the Center on all the policies and issues, which, the later will find as right. The same way, even BJP also will extend its support to TDP at state level to all those policies considered right as per his party, he clarified.

He said, it was Congress, not BJP, which had made the Kargil crisis as an election issue, by raising it at various fora. "And now, it is accusing BJP of taking advantage of the whole affair", he said. The split in Congress over the foreign origin of Sonia Gandhi, had been another major issue in the present elections, Naidu said.According to him, BJP considers the present mid-term polls as a vote for continuation of Vajpayee government at the Center. Naidu said the Congress was reeling under utter confusion and chaos. "It has no clarity about the leader, who will be the next Prime Minister, if it is elected to power. Further, Congress claim about a single party ruling is also incorrect as the party has distanced itself, in Bihar, Tamil Naidu, UP.

Phone tapping denied

BJP on Tuesday denied that the government had tapped telephone of Congress President Sonia Gandhi to monitor her movements before filing of nomination papers from Bellary Parliamentary constituency.

Party's national general secretary M Venkaiah Naidu told repoters here that "BJP did not believe in this method and did not resort to it. It was the culture of Congress".

Terming as `drama', the way Sonia filed her nomination in Bellary in Karnataka, Naidu said reasons of security given by Congress were not satisfactory. Sonia was not sure about her victory inBellary and that was the reason, why she chose to contest from another constituency, he claimed.To a query on issues like Ram Janambhoomi and common civil code, Naidu said these issues needed not be raked up now as BJP was committed to implementing the programmes under NDA's comnmon agenda for national governance. He ridiculed the Congress stand on single party rule and said it did not hold good now and was not possible. The Congress was not going to be in a position to form a government of its own, he said.

Reacting to Sonia's criticism of coalition government, Naidu said Congress was fighting polls in Kerala, Maharashtra, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh by forging alliance with regional parties.