By IANS
Raipur : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh and senior leader L.K. Advani have advised Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh and dissidents in the party to resolve their differences and get ready for next year’s assembly polls and possible early parliamentary elections.
The advice by the senior leaders to bury the hatchet came Friday night when the BJP president hosted a dinner at his residence in New Delhi for the party MPs from Chhattisgarh. Raman Singh also attended the dinner.
“Rajnath Singh and Advani told the MPs that the party needed to take the achievements of the state government to the masses, and this would be possible only if the leaders resolved their differences,” a BJP MP who attended the meet told IANS Saturday on condition of anonymity.
At least two of the nine BJP MPs wanted to discuss Raman Singh’s style of functioning with the party’s central leadership but they avoided the issue after learning about the death of Mahesh Baghel, a state legislator and senior leader of the party who died in a road accident here Friday.
“But the central leaders indirectly communicated to the MPs that a change of leadership in the state was unlikely,” he said.