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Give up Five Star culture : RSS tells BJP |
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The RSS has expressed strong disapproval of the way the BJP had grown over the years and asked the party to liberate itself from Five Star culture. The advice was tendered to the BJP leadership during the meeting of top RSS and BJP leaders held at former Prime Minister Vajpayee’s residence last month. An RSS leader who attended the meeting said the BJP was bluntly told that giving up five star culture is the only way to make the party ride back to power at the Centre again. He said, “The RSS is happy that its advice on leaving the decision making process to the “Core Group” of the BJP and involving senior leaders like Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi, who had been relegated to back seat during the tenures of Venkaiah Naidu and L.K. Advani, has been accepted.” Dr. Joshi was entrusted the task of coordinating the week-long protests at Jammu against the genocide against the Hindu population in Doda and Udhampur districts by terrorist elements.
Among those who attended the meeting included leaders of the Opposition in both Houses of Parliament L.K. Advani and Jaswant Singh, BJP president Rajnath Singh, former BJP presidents Murli Manohar Joshi and M. Venkaiah Naidu, and senior leaders like Vijay Kumar Malhotra and Sushma Swaraj besides general secretary Sanjay Joshi from the BJP and RSS general secretary Mohan Bhagawat and joint general secretaries Madan Das Devi, Suresh Soni and Suresh Joshi.
Senior BJP leaders would be having a marathon meeting in New Delhi on July 12 to chalk out the party’s future course of political and organizational action. Assembly elections in several states including Uttar Pradesh, the ongoing organizational polls and coordination with the RSS are expected to come up at the meeting. In Uttar Pradesh, the party has a lot at stake as it would like to regain lost political ground there.
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