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          Patna,  June 19 (IANS) The NDA's prime ministerial candidate should be as liberal a person as former  prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar  Modi said Tuesday.
 |   "The prime ministerial candidate will be decided by the NDA (National  Democratic Alliance) and not the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party)," Modi said  here. 
 A BJP leader, Modi spoke following Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's statement that  the NDA should declare its prime ministerial candidate well in advance and he  or she should be secular and accepted to all.
 
 "The PM should be liberal ('udar') like Atal Bihari Vajpayee," Modi  told newspersons.
 
 But he added that it was too early to talk about the prime ministerial  candidate as the 2014 elections were far away.
 
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