NEW DELHI – A conspiracy was being hatched by various political parties inthe country and at the global level to prevent Prime Minister Narendra Modifrom coming back to power in 2019, a senior BJP leader from Karnataka hasclaimed.

The Modi fever had made political parties with divergent views cometogether in the country, BJP state general secretary and MLA C T Ravi saidhere.

He alleged nations like Pakistan and China who feared Modi and politicalparties in India want him to lose the Lok Sabha elections in 2019.

“The thinking of Opposition parties in the country is the same as that ofPakistan,” he alleged at a meet-the-press programme here yesterday.

“There is a conspiracy to prevent Narendra Modi from coming back to powerin 2019,” he said, adding, it was because some countries fear that Indiawould become much stronger if Modi was back at the helm.

We are confident that people will support Modi in his attempt to strengthenthe nation in 2019, the BJP leader aid.

Describing the Congress-JD(S) government in the state as the beginning ofthe unholy alliance, Ravi said Congress had become stale and the regionalparty always had been power-hungry.

He said though the BJP could win 104 seats in the assembly polls, it couldnot get to the magic majority number due to the B factor, he said, citingthe party’s poor performance in Bengaluru, Bijapur, Ballari, Belagavi andBidar.