Lucknow, July 10: Complaints about Uttar Pradesh administration favouring major ruling alliance partner BSP dominated a brainstorming session of the state BJP convened here today to prepare the party for Lok Sabha polls. The meeting heard BJP rank and file highlighting the problems faced them in getting positive response from the district authorities in carrying out development-related work in their constituencies.

They alleged district officials were playing a "partisan" role and favouring BSP leaders over their BJP counterparts.

It was decided at the meeting that state BJP president, Vinay Katiyar, in-charge of party affairs in the state, Kalraj Misra and leader of BJP Legislature Party Lalji Tandon would soon be meeting chief minister Mayawati for redressal of their grievances, party sources said.

Presiding over the meeting, Misra asked BJP workers to appreciate the reality of coalition politics and reminded them that BJP had entered into coalition out of compulsion as it had realised that coalition politics had come to stay.

BJP spokesman Hriday Narain Dixit told reporters after the 'chintan baithak' that his party was mentally prepared for contesting Lok Sabha elections in alliance with BSP as decided by Central leaderships of both the parties and said that there was no reason as yet to doubt the intentions of BSP over continuing the alliance in the parliamentary elections.
Dixit, however, termed as "unjustified" recent remarks by Mayawati that Vajpayee government neglected dalits and said, "Perhaps she is not in the know of all the schemes taken up by the Centre for the uplift of dalits and deprived sections of society."

Bureau Report