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Advani holds brain-storming session with party elite
New Delhi, Aug 10: In yet another step towards closer interaction with the party, deputy prime minister L K Advani today had a brain-storming session with an elite section of BJP cadre in which he dwelt at length on the current political situation and controversies.
New Delhi, Aug 10: In yet another step towards closer interaction with the party, deputy prime minister L K Advani today had a brain-storming session with an elite section of BJP cadre in which he dwelt at length on the current political situation and controversies.
The hour long interaction with city-based members of the party's intellectual, professional and trade cells covered a number of subjects including the need for sustaining coalition and alliance politics and to project BJP as a "party and government with a difference." Issues such as the petrol pumps scam, the shifting of Yashwant Sinha from the finance ministry, the Gujarat Assembly elections, the Uniform Civil Code and rampant corruption in administration were also raised by the members at the closed door meeting presided over by party general secretary and spokesman Arun Jaitley at the BJP headquarters here, party sources said. Taking off from the Delhi pledge adopted at the party's national council meeting here last Saturday and Prime Minister Atal Bihari's Vajpayee's address there, Advani said that though the party would like to get a majority of its own in the next Lok Sabha elections, it would like to take along its NDA allies.
In this regard, he cited the "West Bengal model" where despite the CPI (M) having its own majority, other Left parties such as CPI, RSP and Forward Block were part of the government, they said.
Bureau Report
The hour long interaction with city-based members of the party's intellectual, professional and trade cells covered a number of subjects including the need for sustaining coalition and alliance politics and to project BJP as a "party and government with a difference." Issues such as the petrol pumps scam, the shifting of Yashwant Sinha from the finance ministry, the Gujarat Assembly elections, the Uniform Civil Code and rampant corruption in administration were also raised by the members at the closed door meeting presided over by party general secretary and spokesman Arun Jaitley at the BJP headquarters here, party sources said. Taking off from the Delhi pledge adopted at the party's national council meeting here last Saturday and Prime Minister Atal Bihari's Vajpayee's address there, Advani said that though the party would like to get a majority of its own in the next Lok Sabha elections, it would like to take along its NDA allies.
In this regard, he cited the "West Bengal model" where despite the CPI (M) having its own majority, other Left parties such as CPI, RSP and Forward Block were part of the government, they said.
Bureau Report