While the Lucknow meeting of the BJP national executive and council was supposed to be a low key, spartan affair, the low attendance at the meet was not part of the plan. |
Many stars of the party, including film star MPs Shatrughan Sinha, Vinod Khanna, Hema Malini and others including Maneka Gandhi and her son Varun Gandhi stayed away from the meet. |
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All of them will now be at the receiving end of letters from party president Rajnath Singh asking for an explanation for such absenteeism. |
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The MPs are being asked to explain why they did not turn up for the event that endorsed the re-election of their party chief Rajnath Singh for a full three-year term. |
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"Absentees are being issued letters by the party to explain why they did not turn up," a party source said. Similar letters are being sent to BJP MLAs who are members of the national council but did not attend its meeting. |
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In his address to the BJP's Lucknow conclave, Singh had cautioned his party colleagues that they could risk losing their positions if they were not humble and disciplined. |
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The BJP chief, whose party appears to be locked in a tussle for leadership supremacy, has remarked that posts have to be accepted as responsibilities and not as positions of pride. |
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"Never give up humility and grace. Those who give them up cannot remain 'karyakarta' for long," Singh, who also addressed himself as a 'karyakarta' (worker), told the Lucknow national council meeting after the ratification of his re-election as party president. |
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Backed by the Sangh, the BJP chief is set to announce a new team possibly this month, party sources said. |
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