Manali, May 18: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today parried questions on re-entry of former UP chief minister Kalyan Singh into BJP and the murder of poetess Madhumita Shukla. In an interaction with the press shortly before leaving here, he did not reply to a question on the possibility of Kalyan Singh coming back into the BJP.

He also parried a question on the entry of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah into the Union Cabinet.

To a question on the murder of the poetess in Lucknow, Vajpayee said "I don't want to comment because I don't know the full facts".

Bureau Report