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BJP chooses 'discrimination' as poll
plank in J&K

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday decided to go on the offensive on various issues, including the riots in Gujarat and the scandal over the allotments of petrol pumps, with Deputy Prime Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani putting his stamp of approval on such a strategy.

The decisions were taken at a meeting of the party's Political Management and Social Expansion Group, which was attended among others by Advani, sources said.

At the three-hour-long meeting called specifically to draw up a strategy for the coming elections to the Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir assemblies, Advani urged party leaders to keep a close watch on the "opposition strategy", the sources said.

Advani told the leaders that instead of adopting a "defensive" posture, the party should get into an "aggressive mode" and put forward its case before the people whether it be the government's "transparency" in cancelling all petrol pump allotments or the role of the Congress in the Godhra carnage and relief and rehabilitation steps taken by the Narendra Modi government, they said.

BJP president Venkaiah Naidu, vice-president Pyarelal Khandelwal and general secretaries Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, Sanjay Joshi, Anita Arya and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi were present at the meeting at the party headquarters in New Delhi.

The BJP also decided to make "discrimination" against Jammu and Ladakh and devolution of powers to the two regions a key issue in the coming elections, party sources said.

"Discrimination against Jammu and Ladakh would be a clear cut agenda in our poll campaign," a senior leader said.

The BJP has stakes only in Jammu, from where the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-backed Jammu State Morcha is contesting the polls on the plank of statehood to Jammu.

The meeting did not take any decision on having a truck with the Morcha, though talks are on between RSS and BJP leaders.

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