Sandesh Prabhudesai
12 April 2002
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has
finally tendered his resignation, but to the national executive
body of the Bharatiya Janata Party, in Goa.
A final decision regarding his fate will
be taken tonight, when the NEC will meet, preponing the
meeting that was to begin tomorrow morning.
The dramatic announcement in this regard
was made by BJP President Jana Krishnamurthy at the venue
of the public rally at Campal grounds in Goa.
While local Goa president Laxmikant Parsekar
was addressing the rally, Krishnamurthy came straight to
the place where media persons were sitting after he arrived
at Campal grounds and spoke to them, before going to the
dais.
According to Krishnamurthy, Modi stood
up soon after the inauguration of the national executive
meeting at Hotel Marriott Resort at 4.30 pm and announced
that he is submitting his resignation to the party's highest
governing body.
"I would prefer to sit here as a general
executive member and not as the chief minister", said Modi.
In view of this development, said Krishnamurthy,
the party has decided to prepone its meeting, which was
scheduled to begin tomorrow morning, to discuss the Gujarat
issue threadbare and take a decision regarding Modi's resignation.
"I will personally come to you to announce
the outcome of the meeting", he assured the media.
Prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and
home minister L K Advani were yet to arrive at the venue
to address the public rally, when Krishnamurthy spoke to
the media persons.
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