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Vajpayee likely to be NDA chairman, Advani leader of Oppn
New Delhi, May 26: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is likely to be made the chairman of the BJP Parliamentary Party and subsequently that of the NDA while former Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani appears almost certain to be made the leader of opposition.
New Delhi, May 26: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee is likely to be made the chairman of the BJP
Parliamentary Party and subsequently that of the NDA while
former Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani appears almost certain
to be made the leader of opposition.
These indications emerged from a meeting of top BJP
leaders here at the residence of party president M Venkaiah
Naidu where BJP finalised its strategy for the nine-day
session of Parliament beginning on June 2 and it was decided
that the party would highlight the issue of induction of
chargesheeted persons in Manmohan Singh Ministry.
"We would raise the issue of induction of persons, who have been chargesheeted or have criminal charges against them, as ministers in the Union Council of Ministers. This would be taken up both inside Parliament and outside," party spokesman Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters.
"The party will also raise in a big way how the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) has not been able to agree on the Common Minimum Programme, the parties in the coalition openly bargaining for ministerial berths and portfolios and speaking in different voices," he said.
The meeting attended among others by Advani and former Ministers Jaswant Singh and Sushma Swaraj, Parliamentary Party Spokesman V K Malhotra, party's chief whip in Rajya Sabha S S Ahluwalia and Naqvi, discussed organisational matters and steps to revamp the party in the wake of the poll debacle, he said.
Naidu is likely to constitute soon the national executive as also a new team of office bearers, both of which were kept in abeyance in view of the Lok Sabha elections, by the week end, Naqvi said.
A preliminary exercise in this regard began yesterday with an informal meeting of the top leaders with former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
With a large number of its leaders, including several Union Ministers, losing in the recent Lok Sabha polls, some of them are likely to be accommodated in the party, they said.
Even as the party leadership was undertaking the exercise of revamping the organisation, several top leaders, who lost the Lok Sabha polls, were understood to be lobbying for Rajya Sabha berths as the party is expected to get 16 out of 57 seats that have fallen vacant, the sources said.
Among those who are seeking Rajya Sabha seats is former HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi, the sources said.
As regards party posts, there are 20 office bearers besides the president which includes seven vice presidents, seven national secretaries, five general secretaries and a treasurer.
All these posts are to be filled by the president and Naidu is expected to complete this exercise by this month end as also nominating heads of six frontal organisations, sources said.
Naidu would be nominating 80 members to the national executive as also 24 special invitees.
Bureau Report
"We would raise the issue of induction of persons, who have been chargesheeted or have criminal charges against them, as ministers in the Union Council of Ministers. This would be taken up both inside Parliament and outside," party spokesman Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters.
"The party will also raise in a big way how the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) has not been able to agree on the Common Minimum Programme, the parties in the coalition openly bargaining for ministerial berths and portfolios and speaking in different voices," he said.
The meeting attended among others by Advani and former Ministers Jaswant Singh and Sushma Swaraj, Parliamentary Party Spokesman V K Malhotra, party's chief whip in Rajya Sabha S S Ahluwalia and Naqvi, discussed organisational matters and steps to revamp the party in the wake of the poll debacle, he said.
Naidu is likely to constitute soon the national executive as also a new team of office bearers, both of which were kept in abeyance in view of the Lok Sabha elections, by the week end, Naqvi said.
A preliminary exercise in this regard began yesterday with an informal meeting of the top leaders with former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
With a large number of its leaders, including several Union Ministers, losing in the recent Lok Sabha polls, some of them are likely to be accommodated in the party, they said.
Even as the party leadership was undertaking the exercise of revamping the organisation, several top leaders, who lost the Lok Sabha polls, were understood to be lobbying for Rajya Sabha berths as the party is expected to get 16 out of 57 seats that have fallen vacant, the sources said.
Among those who are seeking Rajya Sabha seats is former HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi, the sources said.
As regards party posts, there are 20 office bearers besides the president which includes seven vice presidents, seven national secretaries, five general secretaries and a treasurer.
All these posts are to be filled by the president and Naidu is expected to complete this exercise by this month end as also nominating heads of six frontal organisations, sources said.
Naidu would be nominating 80 members to the national executive as also 24 special invitees.
Bureau Report