Senior Rashtraiya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activist M.G. Vaidya’s remarks in his blog that the needle of suspicion in the campaign against BJP President Nitin Gadkari points to the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has attracted reaction from the BJP.
“The BJP completely rejects such insinuations, as it is totally unfounded,” BJP President Nitin Gadkari said today evening in a statement.
He said all central leaders of the BJP and its Chief Ministers have been “working cohesively”. “We are fighting the Gujarat Assembly elections with complete unity of purpose and total mutual confidence,” he said and added that the BJP stands firmly behind Modi.
The full text of the statement is here: My attention has been drawn to a Marathi blog written by M.G. Vaidya, a senior journalist, the substance of which has also been published by a section of the media. The writer has tried to link recent comments by one of the Party MPs with Shri Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat. The BJP completely rejects such insinuation, as it is totally unfounded. All central leaders of the Party and its Chief Ministers have been working cohesively and unitedly for the cause of the Party. We are fighting Gujarat assembly elections with complete unity of purpose and total mutual confidence. BJP is firmly and unitedly behind Shri Narendra Modi and we are confident that the Party will win decisively in the ensuing assembly elections.