NEW DELHI: With most of the opinion polls giving an edge to AAP in Delhi elections,

Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday said the electoral mandate in the
national capital cannot be seen as a referendum on the performance of Narendra Modi
government at the Centre.
"It is the election for the chief minister and not for the Prime Minister. Narendra Modi is
not fighting assembly elections. It is a state election. You are going to elect a chief
minister not a Prime Minister. It is the BJP versus the rest. That is all," Naidu told in an
interview.
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However, he defended his party's aggressive campaign to win Delhi polls, saying the
mood of the country now was to strengthen the hands of the Prime Minister, who is
trying to bring a transformation and Delhi being the capital, naturally acquires
importance.
Dismissing that Delhi polls were Modi versus Arvind Kejriwal, he said, "Who is Kejriwal.
He fought parliamentary elections. See, what happened. The same thing is going to
happen to him here also. There is no comparison between Modi and Kejriwal. Modi is
the Prime Minister of India, who has been elected by people and then backed by nearly
400 MPs."