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Jammu,August 28
The BJP Chief,Ashok Khajuri's bid to use mediators for bringing about a rapprochement with Prof. Hari Om, who as vice president and party spokesman, had resigned eight days ago has failed. Hari Om is determined not to open his mind before any other person except the party in charge, Shanta Kumar, a former Himachal Chief Minister, who is scheduled to visit Jammu on September 6.
Shanta Kumar will preside over a meeting of the party's core group in Jammu. The main interest in the state's winter capital is focused on his success in bringing back Hari Om to the party fold. Inside reports said that Ashok Khajuria had sought help from Dr Nirmal Singh who has been a student and close associate and colleague of Hari Om in persuading the estranged BJP leader to return to the party but Dr Singh is said to have suggested Khajuria to talk to Hari Om personally. These reports said that Khajuria had attempted to contact Hari Om but failed because the professor has preferred to remain cut off from the outside world. He moves about incognito to carry out his engagements.
Hari Om has told his trusted men that he would not talk about his resignation to anyone in Jammu. He would discuss it with Shanta Kumar only after the party high command opposed step taken by Khajuria which infuriated Hari Om to withdraw from the politics.
Sources close to Hari Om said that with the change of guard in the organisation he had been sidelined and work on framing party press releases had been entrusted to a nonentity.His supporters have not stomached Hari Om's reason for quitting the party post
and they said that when he was in active service he had time to devote to the party and after retirement he had no reason to say that because of his academic engagements he could not devote time to the party.
The core groups will also discuss with Shanta Kumar the strategy that the party should adopt while preparing itself for the next Assembly poll. Atleast in the Jammu region, which has 37 Assembly Constituencies, the BJP could do well provided the ongoing dissidence does not make it a toothless organisation as happened in 2002 when it could win only one seat. It will be mainly challenged in the Jammu region by the Congress and the Panthers Party and hence it has to redraft its strategy to meet these challenges
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