The Hindu : Khurana's `darbars' to end?

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Sunday, Jan 25, 2004

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Khurana's `darbars' to end?

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JAN. 24. The darbars held regularly by the Rajasthan Governor, Madanlal Khurana, may soon become a thing of the past. The Bharatiya Janata Party has taken note of this and is not entirely pleased with this display of pro-activism by the Governor.

Some party leaders today said that Mr. Khurana would be gently told that his public darbars should be discontinued. Mr. Khurana had assumed his gubernatorial responsibility on January 14 and had announced his intention to hold weekly darbars where he would invite "common people" to meet him and hear their complaints. Apparently, he wanted the Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje, to be by his side on these occasions.

One party leader commented, in a lighter vein, that perhaps the BJP would have to request former Maharashtra Governor, P.C. Alexander, to give a lesson or two to Mr. Khurana on how a Governor must perform his duties.

Nothing wrong: BJP

The BJP today said it did not consider anything wrong in the Rajasthan Governor, Madan Lal Khurana, throwing open the Raj Bhavan to enable common people meet him and air their grievances.

``There is nothing wrong in Mr. Khurana's decision to meet the common people and hear their grievances. In fact, the Chief Minister herself wanted him to do so,'' the party General Secretary and spokesman, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, told PTI.

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