Senior BJP leader L K Advani, is scheduled to leave for Mumbai on Saturday to attend a key coordination meeting between his party and the Sangh.
NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leader L K Advani, who triggered a row with the RSS over his remarks on Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah two years ago, is scheduled to leave for Mumbai on Saturday to attend a key coordination meeting between his party and the Sangh.
The four-day "samavaya baithak" underway in Mumbai is being held after two years and comes in the wake of the BJP's poor showing in Uttar Pradesh despite the Sangh Parivar's full support to the saffron party.
Party leaders say the meeting would discuss how the Sangh could help the BJP, which party general secretary Arun Jaitley says has launched itself into an election mode, in the future with a minimum role in its day-to-day affairs.
BJP chief Rajnath Singh, who led the party's failed campaign in Uttar Pradesh, and his colleagues Murli Manohar Joshi, Venkaiah Naidu and Jaitley, insiders say, will hold discussions with RSS leaders K S Sudarshan and Mohan Bhagwat among others.
Advani, who had to step down as BJP chief over his Jinnah remarks, has been in the forefront since the Uttar Pradesh debacle as he led the party's campaign for Bhairon Singh Shekhawat in presidential elections and drew up its strategyover the Indo-US nuclear accord.
In the BJP's May national executive, he told Singh to consult his seniors and prepare a task sheet on what led to the party's crushing defeat in Uttar Pradesh.
Since he succeeded Advani as BJP president, Singh has given the RSS a greater role in the party organisation by appointing several Sangh functionaries as organizing secretaries.
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