Raipur, Dec 12: In the aftermath of the Assembly
election debacle, BJP`s central leadership has summoned former
Chief Minister Vasundhare Raje and state unit chief Om Prakash
Mathur to Delhi to sort out differences and to prevent
"further damage" ahead of Lok Sabha elections.
Both Raje and Mathur will meet BJP chief Rajnath Singh,
Prime Ministerial candidate L K Advani and senior leader M
Venkaiah Naidu tomorrow in the capital where they will be
"counselled" by party seniors to forget personal issues and
work together to ensure victory in the coming Lok Sabha polls.
"We have called both Raje and Mathur to Delhi to discuss
the issues that led to our defeat in Rajasthan," Naidu told
media without elaborating. Naidu was in Raipur to attend the
swearing in ceremony of Raman Singh as Chief Minister of
Chhattisgarh.
Party sources said that Naidu has been deputed by the
central leadership to bring the two leaders together and build
a consensus among them in the run up to the Lok Sabha
elections so as not to repeat the electoral drubbing it got in
the recent Assembly elections.
"There were irreconcilable differences between Raje and
Mathur which led to problems in ticket distribution during the
elections and the defeat. We don`t want these differences to
damage the party`s prospects in Lok Sabha elections," a senior
BJP MP involved in Rajasthan elections said.
Both leaders are expected to give their version about
what led to the defeat of the party in Rajasthan where it was
ruling. The party, which had 120 out of 200 seats, had to
satisfy with 78 MLAs behind Congress which has 96 members in
the Assembly.
Bureau Report
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