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Nitin Gadkari and Narendra Modi
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday played down senior
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader MG Vaidya's alleged remark that
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was behind the dissent against
Nitin Gadkari, saying the party is united under the party chief's
leadership and fighting against all the conspiracies of the ruling
Congress Party together
"The party is united under Nitin Gadkari's leadership. We are
fighting against the Congress with all power. And the party is fighting
against all the conspiracies of the Congress Party. We are united and
together and working for the reconstruction of the country," said BJP
spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain
"We are working together to ensure
that there is an end to the rampant corruption and inflation and a good
government is formed in the country," he added
Meanwhile, another
BJP spokesperson Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi refused to comment on the issue,
saying he was not aware of Vaidya's blog
"I have not seen any of his blogs. I don't want to comment on it," he said
Vaidya earlier said Modi is designing the dissent within the BJP over whether Gadkari should continue in office
"The
roots of the campaign against Nitin Gadkari have to be in Gujarat
because when Ram Jethmalani demanded Gadkari's resignation, he also
demanded that Narendra Modi be made the prime ministerial candidate of
the party," Vaidya wrote in his blog on Sunday
"Modi himself seems
to have strong prime ministerial ambitions because LK Advani and Nitin
Gadkari have already said that they are not in the race for the PM. But
Narendra Modi has still not said anything on this issue," he added
Vaidya
said it was important that the BJP appear united and also that "there
is no need to deliberate over the PM candidate for 2014 now in 2012."
Vaidya
in his blog also wrote: "Ram Jethmalani should not have expressed his
displeasure against Nitin Gadkari publicly. Any BJP member or MP can
feel that Nitin Gadkari should resign, but they should raise this issue
on the party platform.
Earlier, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Ram Jethmalani
and his son Mahesh had said Gadkari should immediately step down from
his post as the charges against him were damaging the party.
He claimed to have the support of other party leaders like Jaswant Singh, Yashwant Sinha and Shatrughan Sinha.
"I
have been in touch with Jaswant Singh, Yashwant Sinha and Shatrughan
Sinha. We seem to be on the same wavelength. But I don't presume to
predict how they are going to act today or tomorrow. But we four of us
are clearly of the opinion that a resignation at this time from the
party president is imminently called for," Jethmalani had said.
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