Asom BJP unlikely to relent

By Our Special Correspondent

GUWAHATI, APRIL 14. The three-man damage control team sent here yesterday by the BJP leaders from Delhi to pacify the rebellious workers who have split the party and formed the ``Asom BJP'' has drawn a blank.

The BJP vice-president, Mr. Pyarelal Khandelwal, the general secretary in-charge of Assam, Mr. Sunil Shastri, and the general secretary (organisation), Mr. Narendra Modi, could not even meet Mr. Hiranya Bhattacharya, president of the Asom BJP.

Mr. V. Sateesh, State organising secretary, contacted Mr. Bhattacharya on Friday and requested him to meet the central leaders.

``I told Mr. Sateesh that meeting the central leaders would be useless unless they first terminate the poll alliance with the AGP and accepted the candidates set up by the Asom BJP as BJP candidates,'' Mr. Bhattacharya told The Hindu.

The Chief Minister, Mr. Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, has commented that if the BJP leaders failed to tackle dissidence, poll prospects of the alliance would be affected.

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