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New Delhi: Union Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Sunday said that the reinduction of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi into the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary Board will result in the party's self-destruction. "The reinduction of Narendra Modi to the BJP's Parliamentary Board will cause self-destruction of the BJP," Sibal told media on the second entry of Modi to the BJP core group. "The real Modi's challenge is for BJP. It is Modi who is seeking to take over the party. Once Modi takes over the party, there is no BJP," he said. "BJP has no ideology of its own. How long they will survive with this kind of situation, only time will tell. And for an experienced person like Yashwant Sinha to be left out, its only the story emerges out that those who fights for the cause over party are ultimately thrown out," he added.
On Modi's aide and former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah, who become one of the general secretaries of the party, Sibal said: "The person who has been appointed as general secretary has got serious charges against him. The BJP is going towards self-destruction." Shah, who has several criminal cases against him and is out on bail, was allowed only recently to return to Gujarat by the Supreme Court. Modi makes his comeback to the party's top decision-making body after six years. The Parliamentary Board has only 11 top-ranking leaders and Modi is the only Chief Minister included in this select group. BJP president Rajnath Singh, who met party's veteran LK Advani this morning ahead of the announcement, named Amit Shah, Varun Gandhi, J P Nadda, Ananth Kumar, Dharmendra Pradhan, Muralidhar Rao and Rajiv Pratap Rudy as general secretaries of the party. |
