The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failed to get any respite from its lawmakers on the Bihar poll debacle but two senior ministers on Friday (November 13) sought to placate the dissenting veterans saying their views would be given due consideration.
One of the ministers, Nitin Gadkari, himself a former President of the party, denied that he had suggested disciplinary action against veterans – L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Shanta Kumar and Yashwant Sinha, who had issued a strong statement targeting Modi-Shah duo for the Bihar drubbing.
The rumblings in the party over the Bihar loss continued on Friday with party MP R K Singh supporting the veterans' demand that accountability be fixed for the drubbing.
"Accountability has to be fixed. Review should be made of the election debacle. We need to find out what went wrong, who were responsible. That's what 'margdarshak mandal' said," Singh, the Ara MP, said in a reference to the statement of the veterans.
