By IANS,
New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Tuesday that its two-day national executive meet in Patna from June 12 will have all members attending unless in the case of “unprecedented events”.
“All members will attend the national executive meet as expected but there are always unprecedented events which cannot be prevented,” BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman told IANS.
Party chief Nitin Gadkari, parliamentary board chairman L.K. Advani, leaders of opposition in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and chief ministers of all the BJP-led states will participate in the meet.
Brushing aside speculations of discontent over some Rajya Sabha candidates after the absence of many senior leaders from a two-day party convention on good governance, held in Maharashtra June 5-6, party leader and Rajya Sabha nominee from Madhya Pradesh Chandan Mitra said that these leaders had “genuine reasons” for not attending the event.
“There were genuine reasons why they couldn’t make it to the event in Maharashtra. They were all unexpected and personal reasons and there is no other cause to my knowledge as to why they did not attend. And for the national executive meet, all will be present,” Mitra told IANS.
The two-day national executive meet will focus on strategy for the Bihar polls and on matters of price rise and national security, issues allegedly neglected by the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA).
On the second day, a public meeting will also be held at Patna’s historic Gandhi Maidan.