Goa meet not to decide Modi's
fate
Sandesh Prabhudesai
8 April 2002
Amidst increasing pressure on the central
leadership to remove Narendra Modi as the Gujarat chief
minister, the BJP has dismissed the speculation that his
fate will be decided at the national executive meeting scheduled
in Goa this week.
"Why do the national executive need to
discuss Modi issue? Such decisions can be taken even in
Delhi", said Sharad Kulkarni, the Maharashtra BJP leader
co-ordinating the meeting preparations here in Goa.
Around 173 ruling party leaders, including
prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, party president Jana
Krishnamurthy, 25 union ministers and four chief ministers
of Gujarat, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh and Goa will attend
the three-day meeting, beginning here from 12 April.
Kulkarni however agreed that the ongoing
violence in Gujarat will definitely be the prime matter
of debate at the meeting, while discussing the political
resolution, besides the fallout of Ayodhya, POTA as well
as party's debacle in the Assembly elections in eight states
and Delhi municipality.
The meet is also expected to stress upon
the post-budget scenario in the country to take economic
position. The detailed agenda will be finalised in Delhi
tomorrow, disclosed Kulkarni.
The prime minister, who is arriving here
on 12 April afternoon soon after arriving in Delhi from
his Combodia visit, will be in Goa till 14 April. He will
also address a public rally on the first day of the meeting,
as Goa is going for fresh Assembly polls next month, for
the first time under the BJP rule.
The three-day event, which will begin at
Hotel Marriott Resort in Panaji with the office bearers'
meeting on Friday morning, will conclude on Sunday 14 April.
