<p class="title">Stating that he was "happy" that Rahul Gandhi has made it clear he was not driven by prime ministerial ambitions, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said on Monday the party getting a maximum number of seats after 2019 polls would claim the post.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Let elections take place, remove these people (BJP) from power. We will sit together. Whichever party has got more seats can claim the prime minister's post," Pawar, 78, said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"And I am happy that the Congress leader (Rahul Gandhi) has also said he is not in the race for the prime minister's post," he said at a party meeting in Mumbai.</p>.<p class="bodytext">His remarks have come a day after the Congress president said he was not driven by an ambition to become prime minister.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I dont have these visions. I view myself as fighting an ideological battle and this change has come to me after 2014. I realised that there's a risk to Indian state, to the Indian way of doing things and I'm defending that," Gandhi said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">At the Mumbai meeting, Pawar reminded NCP leaders that the United Progressive Alliance, formed after the 2004 general election, had dislodged the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, formed in 1998.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said he will "try to go to each state and make regional parties which are not with the BJP to join us (the opposition alliance)".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Congress is strong in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. In Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati-Akhilesh are there. The situation is different in each state. Hence, we will have to get along with parties which are strong in each state," the former Union minister said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Lok Janshakti Party leader and Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan said on Saturday said that there was no vacancy for the post of prime minister in 2019.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said the united opposition front should start worrying about the 2024 elections, as Modi faces no challenge in 2019. </p>
<p class="title">Stating that he was "happy" that Rahul Gandhi has made it clear he was not driven by prime ministerial ambitions, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said on Monday the party getting a maximum number of seats after 2019 polls would claim the post.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Let elections take place, remove these people (BJP) from power. We will sit together. Whichever party has got more seats can claim the prime minister's post," Pawar, 78, said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"And I am happy that the Congress leader (Rahul Gandhi) has also said he is not in the race for the prime minister's post," he said at a party meeting in Mumbai.</p>.<p class="bodytext">His remarks have come a day after the Congress president said he was not driven by an ambition to become prime minister.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I dont have these visions. I view myself as fighting an ideological battle and this change has come to me after 2014. I realised that there's a risk to Indian state, to the Indian way of doing things and I'm defending that," Gandhi said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">At the Mumbai meeting, Pawar reminded NCP leaders that the United Progressive Alliance, formed after the 2004 general election, had dislodged the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, formed in 1998.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said he will "try to go to each state and make regional parties which are not with the BJP to join us (the opposition alliance)".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Congress is strong in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. In Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati-Akhilesh are there. The situation is different in each state. Hence, we will have to get along with parties which are strong in each state," the former Union minister said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Lok Janshakti Party leader and Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan said on Saturday said that there was no vacancy for the post of prime minister in 2019.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said the united opposition front should start worrying about the 2024 elections, as Modi faces no challenge in 2019. </p>