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BJP to target chargesheeted ministers

May 26, 2004 15:35 IST
Last Updated: May 26, 2004 19:00 IST


The Bharatiya Janata Party will target chargesheeted persons inducted in the Manmohan Singh Ministry in the Lok Sabha session beginning on June 2.

This was decided at a meeting to decide the party strategy for the nine-day session.

"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 both inside Parliament and outside," party spokesman Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters in Delhi.

"The party will also raise in a big way (the issues of) 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.

Former deputy prime minister Lal Kishenchand Advani, former ministers Jaswant Singh and Sushma Swaraj, parliamentary party spokesman V K Malhotra, party's chief whip in the Rajya Sabha S S Ahluwalia and Naqvi discussed organisational matters and steps to revamp the party in the wake of the poll debacle at the meeting held in party president M Venkaiah Naidu's residence.

Naidu is likely to soon constitute the national executive and also install a new team of office bearers, both of which were kept in abeyance in view of the Lok Sabha elections.

"In view of the electoral setback and the coming assembly polls, there is a need to revamp the party to boost the morale of the cadres," BJP sources said.

The BJP parliamentary party is scheduled to meet on June 1, on the eve of the Lok Sabha session, to decide on who will take up the position of Leader of Opposition in view of Vajpayee's reluctance to don the mantle. Advani seems to be the most likely choice while Vajpayee is expected to head the National Democratic Alliance.


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