The Hindu : BJP to hold regional convention in West Godavari

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Friday, Jan 23, 2004

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BJP to hold regional convention in West Godavari

By Our Staff Reporter

BHIMAVARAM (WEST GODAVARI DT), JAN 22. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to organise a massive regional convention in West Godavari district some time in February as a show of its strength in the region.

The party district executive meeting held here on Thursday took a decision to this effect. The party State vice-president, Somu Veera Raju, said the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, and the party all-India president, M. Venkaiah Naidu, would address the regional convention. He said it was decided to mobilise over three lakh people from East and West Godavari districts for the proposed convention.

The executive meeting was attended by the Union Ministers of State, Bandaru Dattatreya and U.V. Krishnam Raju, the party vice-president, Somu Veera Raju, the district party president, P. Manikyala Rao, and other senior functionaries.

Even as the district unit had submitted a list of six Assembly seats in the district proposed to be sought for the party in course of bargaining with its ally, the TDP, the party senior leaders reportedly did not allow the issue of seat-sharing to come up for discussion at the meeting held in camera with a view that it could not be an appropriate forum to thrash out such a sensitive issue.

Talking to The Hindu, Mr. Veera Raju, commented that the BJP would certainly open its account in the district with regard to the Assembly elections.

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