I wanted BJP to sit in opposition: Kalraj Mishra.

(From The Times of India)

LUCKNOW: Former UP BJP president, Kalraj Mishra said here on Thursday that he had welcomed the decision of the party's central leadership to form a coalition government, headed by the BSP, in the state, though he personally felt that the BJP should have sit in the opposition as it didn't have a clear mandate in its favour.

"Although I still have the same opinion, I have never opposed the party's collective decision taken in the larger interest of the state, which otherwise would have been in a limbo due to inability of any other political party to form the government," said Mishra, who is also in charge of the party's affair in the …