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Advani meeting party MPs

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI AUG. 5. A series of four meetings planned as an interaction between Bharatiya Janata Party MPs and the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, and the party president, Venkaiah Naidu, began today to discuss specific State-related problems and elicit suggestions for any remedial measures that need to be adopted to make the party more effective.

All the meetings are to be attended by Mr. Advani and the party's top functionaries, including the five general secretaries. Although the effort is to put the party machine into top gear, the petrol pump allotment scandal has certainly cast a shadow and somewhat dampened the enthusiasm generated by the BJP national council session.

MPs from Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh attended the first meeting at the party's headquarters here today. The effort is to bring about greater coordination between MPs and the party's office-bearers and to involve the MPs in the work of effectively carrying the party's message to the people.

Tomorrow MPs from Delhi, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh will meet party leaders, and the day after, August 7, it will be the turn of MPs from Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka. In the last meeting on August 8 MPs from Bihar, Jharkhand, Assam, West Bengal, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Andaman and Nicobar will participate.

Mr. Naidu has also announced the setting up of a committee to study drought in the country and suggest relief measures. Party general secretary, Rajnath Singh (Uttar Pradesh), has been named convenor, and its members include Keshubhai Patel (Gujarat), Kailash Joshi (Madhya Pradesh), Mahadev Shivankar (Maharashtra) and Sushil Kumar Modi (Bihar).

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