The Hindu : Bandaru balm for leaders' fury

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Friday, Mar 26, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Bandaru balm for leaders' fury

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, MARCH 25. Embarrassed by the open show of dissent and defiance by its city wing in the last two days, senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) launched damage control exercise on Thursday.

In a bid to pacify the agitated office-bearers who had submitted resignations expressing resentment at the way the seat-sharing deal with the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) went, senior leader and Union Minister, Bandaru Dattatreya, drove down to the party office and held parleys with them.

Emerging from the confabulations, Mr. Dattatreya sought to dismiss the episode of dissent and resignations as an `internal affair' of the BJP family.

With city unit president, Venkatramani, and other office-bearers on his side, he said: "Some confusion has been created due to differences of opinion and communication gap. We have sorted it out."

When asked if the office-bearers who quit en masse had withdrawn the resignations, Mr. Venkatramani maintained: "State leaders will have to take a decision." City unit leaders, who nurtured hopes of fielding candidates from at least two more constituencies in the city for the elections, were dismayed at not getting what they claimed `a share proportional to their strength.'

More trouble surfaced after it was known that the Malakpet seat, which was represented by N. Indrasena Reddy in the dissolved Assembly, had ended up in TDP's kitty.

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