Patch-up likely as Jaitley meets Rajnath

BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley met party president Rajnath Singh at his Ashoka Road residence on Thursday. The Rajnath-Jaitley meeting assumes significance in view of the unprecedented divide in the party over the appointment of Sushanshu Mittal.

BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley met party president Rajnath Singh at his Ashoka Road residence on Thursday. Jaitley drove to Singh’s residence around noon. For the record,”the meeting was for the seven Delhi seats”.

This meeting was to be followed by Rajnath’s lunch with INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala.

The Rajnath-Jaitley meeting assumes significance in view of the unprecedented divide in the party over the appointment of Sushanshu Mittal as party’s “sah-prabhari” for the North East. While Jaitley was learnt to have told the party top brass that “probity in public life must be the sole criterion for appointing people to important positions in the organisation”,Rajnath had said that “Mittal had worked hard for sewing up party’s alliance in Assam”.

Significantly,the Rajnath camp had considerably softened its stance on Mittal’s appointment by Wednesday evening.

If Mittal is now finally eased out of the organisational responsibility,as is expected,he would also be given credit “for sewing up the party’s alliance with the AGP”. Mittal is currently in Assam for election-related work.

L K Advani,S Gurumurthy and BJP general secretary (organisation) Ram Lal have been working to effect a truce in the organisation on the eve of the elections.

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