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Author: Abhay Singh
Publication: The Times of India
Date: October 22, 2012
URL: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/13a86878309ed57b
The doubts that the Bihar BJP top guns had been 'debarred' from campaigning in Gujarat got cleared on Sunday, as Bihar BJP chief Dr C P Thakur said the state party leaders would campaign there.
According to Dr Thakur, Gujarat CM Narendra Modi contacted him on telephone on Sunday, saying that all BJP leaders from Bihar were welcome in Gujarat to campaign for the party candidates. Modi also said that "unnecessary confusion" had been created on the matter. The Gujarat CM told Dr Thakur that not only Bihar BJP top guns, but even workers were welcome.
"Narendra Modi telephoned me today. He was really concerned that unnecessary confusion had been created, and invited all the BJP leaders and even workers to Gujarat," Dr Thakur said.
Early this week, the confusion that Bihar BJP top guns were not welcome in Bihar occurred as the names of leaders such as deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi, party's chief national spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad, spokesmen Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Shahnawaz Hussain, and cine star-cum-Lok Sabha MP Shatrughan Sinha were missing from the first list of 40 leaders, submitted to the Election Commission, who were to campaign in Gujarat.
Its fallout was expected, with animal husbandry and fisheries minister Giriraj Singh seeing a conspiracy in the raising of the issue, who added that the party's leaders from Bihar should have been included in the list. Incidentally, health minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey maintained that invitation or no invitation, he would go to Gujarat to campaign for the party.
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