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Vajpayee visits RSS headquarters

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JULY 27. After a gap of six years, the former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, visited the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh headquarters in Jhandewalan here along with other senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders to discuss the ideological direction of the party ahead of its `chintan baithak' in Goa this month-end.

At a meeting that lasted two-and-a-half hours, BJP and RSS leaders reportedly thrashed out various issues. It was confirmed by one of the participants that the Vishwa Hindu Parishad suggestion that the RSS float a new pro-Hindu party strongly committed to Hindutva — a suggestion that has already been rejected by the RSS — also came up for discussion. The BJP document, Tasks Ahead, finalised by the party at its Mumbai conclave recently, was also discussed with a view to laying out the road map for a better integration of the BJP's future programmes with the larger Sangh ideology.

Among those who attended the meeting besides Mr. Vajpayee were the Leader of the Opposition, L.K. Advani, the BJP president, Venkaiah Naidu, and general secretary in-charge of the organisation, Sanjay Joshi.

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