Kolkata, June 06: BJP president Venkaiah Naidu today asserted there was no leadership crisis in the BJP and the party wanted Atal Behari Vajpayee to continue as the Prime Minister. Maintaining that there was no difference of opinion within the party in this regard, Naidu said, "Vajpayee is our Prime Minister and every one is supporting him".

The BJP president who made a brief stopover at the NSC Bose International Airport here on way to Guwahati said the media had blown out of proportion an observation made by the Prime Minister.
"Media spun the story and people enjoyed it," he said.

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The Prime Minister`s remark on Wednesday that Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani would lead the party to victory had created a flutter in political circles.
The BJP president had said in New Delhi yesterday that the next general elections would be fought in the name of Vajpayee and the performance of his government.
BJP state unit presidents of the north eastern states are meeting at a conference at Dibrugarh to chalk out the party`s expansion plans in the region.

Bureau Report