Mumbai: With the four main political parties frantically campaigning in the Maharashtra assembly elections, the BJP is convinced that it will carry away an absolute majority.

Union Minister Prakash Javadekar, speaking in Thane, said the party’s fight is against the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party and their bad governance.

“Our party is confident that we will come to power and provide good governance to the state’s citizens, who have been reeling under problems for so long,” the senior BJP leader from Maharashtra told journalists after inaugurating a party election office in Thane.

“Our only aim is to come to power in the state on our own and serve the state, as we have done at the Centre,” he said, adding the party would soon release its agenda for the state.

He also said that the BJP had decided not to speak against its former ally, the Shiv Sena, at any of its public meetings and will also not react to any unpleasant remarks made by the erstwhile partner.

The BJP split ways with its partner of 25 years last week.

Another BJP leader from Nagpur, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, whilst addressing rallies in support of the party’s candidates Vijaykumar Gavit in Nandurbar (a Scheduled Tribe reserved seat) and other candidates in Nashik district on Monday night, announced that work on four-laning of Amravati-Surat Road will begin within the next three months.

Gadkari also stressed that the fight was against the former Congress-NCP government under whose tenure development took a back seat whilst the coalition simply watched thousands of farmers commit suicide.

He called former Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan an “inefficient” administrator, and indicated that Maharashtra dropped to No. 6 position in terms of growth.

Though there aren’t many leaders with a strong personalities from the BJP in Maharashtra, they have, however, fanned out to reach out to voters.

Vinod Tawde, leader of opposition in the Legislative Council who is contesting from the Borivili constituency, on Tuesday took to Borivili railway station on the Western Railway to interact with hundreds of commuters and local people and listen to their problems.

Time is short for the candidates who started campaigning in real earnest only since last week due to the break-up of the alliances of both the ruling and opposition parties. Amid the chaos of the last few days, more than 100 aspirants for the October 15 elections have rebelled against their parties.

Many filed nominations either as independents or as candidates of other parties in the absence of any political alliance among the major parties.

Anant Deotale, a Congress minister, switched to the BJP just two hours before the filing of nominations ended on September 27.