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| Vajpayee endorses new team amidst row in BJP | | | NEW DELHI, FEB 1
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today set his seal of approval on BJP chief Rajnath Singh's team as a row appeared to brew in the party over the exclusion of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi from the parliamentary board and Arun Jaitley as chief spokesman.
"It (Singh's team) was formed after a lot of thought," Vajpayee told reporters here. "All such notions are false," he remarked when asked whether the BJP chief's new set-up has triggered disaffection within the party.
"There was balance. And balance will be there (again) after criticism," he said.
In his comments earlier in the day, BJP spokesman Prakash Javadekar told reporters that Singh held wide consultations with both Vajpayee and senior party leader L K Advani before constituting his team.
"It is the prerogative of the party president to appoint the national executive and office-bearers but he (Singh) held wide consultations with the seniors (Vajpayee and Advani) and colleagues before constituting the team," Javadekar said.
His observations came as reports spoke of Modi, the BJP's Hindutva icon, being angry with Singh's decision.
Singh's move to drop Jaitley as spokesman came a month after his warning to party colleagues that they should exercise restraint while speaking to the media. |
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