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Gopinath Munde to meet LK Advani or Sonia Gandhi?
Published: Wednesday, Jun 22, 2011, 0:45 IST
By Shubhangi Khapre | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA

Will Gopinath Munde, who left for Delhi late on Tuesday, meet senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani or Congress president Sonia Gandhi for another round of talks?
This question was on the mind of each BJP member.
Munde has been cornered as the top party leadership has slammed its doors on his demands when he sought a guarantee that he would lead the 2014 assembly elections in Maharashtra.
A shocked Venkaiah Naidu, who was the key mediator, asked: “How can Munde even ask such a question?”
Late night developments indicated Munde was keen on pleading his case again before Advani and leader of opposition Sushma Swaraj. Going on the backfoot, he said: “I am fighting for party workers not seeking any post for myself.”
Since Tuesday morning, Munde was busy holding marathon meetings with his supporters at his Mumbai residence, seeking their opinion on future course of action.
In the evening, he told the media: “The party has not yet resolved the issues, which I had raised. All options are open.” But, he neither confirmed nor denied possibility of his quitting the BJP or even joining the Congress.
But, BJP national spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said: “The developments related to Munde are intra-party conflict. There is no question of Munde leaving the party.”
State BJP president Sudhir Mungantiwar, leader of the Opposition Eknath Khadse and state legislature council chief Pandurang Phundkar met Munde in Mumbai and tried to persuade him against taking any extreme step.
When they reassured him that he was still their leader, Munde retorted: “I have no issues with any of you in the state. Whatever the decision, it will now be taken in Delhi.”
Sources in the party said that the BJP’s central leadership had genuinely tried to mollify Munde for the last three days.
“Advani had assured him that the 2014 state assembly elections would be held under his leadership. But they shot down his demand to appoint Phundkar in place of Mungantiwar as state party president. But when Munde asked what was the guarantee that these promises would not be violated, Advani and Naidu got very upset,” a party source said.
Sources also indicated that throughout the developments, BJP president Nitin Gadkari has maintained an uneasy calm. He had indicated that he would not utter a word and left it to the emissaries and Advani to find an amicable way out.
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My dear Shubhangi Khapray, oops, Khapre,
Pray tell me. What are you doing in DNA’s Mumbai offices? Hit the road, oops, hit the headlines, oops, make waves not write a mildly provocative headline and leave everything else to poor, moi’s imagination.
Just kidding. You are OK by me.
However, If I were you, heaven forbid that thought, I would have written a more jazzy headline.
For instance:
Manna Dey’s, oops, Gopinath Munday’s day in Delhi supreme Court, oops, Sonia Gandhi’s “Diwan-e-Khas. Second headline in smaller type, preferably in italics:
“Khallas. Khel khatam” for the right wing, fundamentalist, oops, fascist party, Bharatiya Janata Party, oops, Bee Jay Pee.
Body copy:
Gopinathji Mundeji is roaring, again. Like a vicious jungle Hindu hyena, oops, a jungle ‘bibtya,’ Marathi for spotted tiger. More like a volcano. Spitting fire and brim-stones. Hissing, hollering, shaking and baking in Bombay, oops, Bomb Bay, aka Mumbai bangalow.
One of these days, not so distant in future, Gopinathji Mundeji would be hissing and kissing Soniaji Mahatma, oops, Gandhiji’s lily-white, Eyetalian feet.
May Allah be praised.
While Lalji Kishenji Adwaniji’s saffron asspirations to be the next HinDoo prime minister go up in flames, oops saffron plumes.
The End.
…and I am Sid Harth@mysistereileen.com @sidileak.com @holyhinducowwhatnow.com
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