BJP assures Samata on support to Koijam

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, MAY 15. The Samata Party today got a categorical assurance from the top Bharatiya Janata Party leadership on the continuation of support to the Manipur Chief Minister, Mr. Radha Binod Koijam, of the Samata, who was facing dissidence from constituents of his coalition government.

The assurance was given to a delegation of Samata leaders comprising the president, Mr. V. V. Krishna Rao, Mr. George Fernandes, Ms. Jaya Jaitly and the general secretary, Dr. Shambhu Shrivastava, which met the BJP president, Mr. K. Jana Krishnamurthy, and the general secretary, Mr. Narendra Modi, here.

Mr. Koijam, who heads the 13-member Samata Party in the State Assembly, leads the People's Front coalition government which enjoys support of the BJP, the Manipur State Congress Party), the Federal Party and the Nationalist Congress Party among others.

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