Rangasamy to meet PMK leaders to break the impasse
The Hindu
BJP territorial president M. Visweswaran and All India N. R .Congress
president N. Rangasamy, at a press meet in Puducherry. Photo: S.S. Kumar
BJP reaffirms support of NDA partners to AINRC
Even as the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) reiterated its
stand to field its candidate in Puducherry, the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) on Monday reaffirmed that all alliance partners of National
Democratic Alliance would support the All India N.R. Congress (AINRC)
candidate R. Radhakrishnan. But, the rift between PMK and BJP over this
issue persists.
In a show of strength, the front line
leaders of the BJP led by its territorial president M. Visweswaran met
Chief Minister N. Rangasamy at the AINRC office and offered the party’s
support to Mr. Radhakrishnan. They held a discussion about the strategy
to be followed to carry forward the agenda of campaign.
Later,
in a joint press meet with Mr. Rangasamy, Mr. Visweswaran said that the
BJP national president Rajnath Singh had already announced that the
Puducherry seat had been allotted to AINRC in the NDA alliance. There
was absolutely no dispute in it. It meant that all alliance partners
would support the AINRC candidate.
When the
insistence of PMK candidature in Puducherry was pointed out, Mr.
Visweswaran said he had appealed to the PMK to withdraw from the race so
as to put a united show to make Narendra Modi as Prime Minister. The
BJP would take steps to solve the issue.
Asked
whether he would meet the PMK leaders [Ramadoss and Anbumani Ramadoss]
to break the impasse, Mr. Rangasamy said that he would meet all the
leaders of NDA soon. Meanwhile PMK leaders close to the party high
command claimed that the announcement of a candidate for the lone seat
in the UT was done with the concurrence of the BJP central leadership.
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