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Monday, August 17, 1998

Promises will be kept: BJP

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE  
ROHTAK, Aug 16: Bharatiya Janata Party president Khushabhau Thakre today said the party was committed to fulfill ``all promises made during the poll days, including the abolition of octroi.'' The BJP president was here to inaugurate district party office.

Talking to media persons later the BJP president said that differences of opinion were ``natural'' among alliance partners of any coalition. The Vajpayee government was facing no serious crisis and would complete its full term, he asserted.

He expressed satisfaction over the functioning of HVP-BJP combine government in Haryana and said there was no irritant between the two parties.

He said the government wanted to ensure that abolition of octroi should not hamper the working of civic bodies since octroi is the main source of income for these bodies.

``The Cauvery issue has blown over. Vajpayee has done in a matter of months what the Congress could not do in two decades,'' he said lauding the recent settlement between the four chief ministers of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry and Kerala as a ``courageous achievement'' by the Centre since the states which signed the pact were run neither by the BJP nor its allies.

Referring to the Punjab-Haryana water-sharing issue and transfer of Chandigarh, Thakre said they would be solved amicably. ``Our party and allies are in power in these states, and it (solution) will be more easy,'' he maintained.

Kushabhau Thakre also the foundation for the statute of Mangal Sein, a renowned Jan Sangh leader of Haryana.

Those who attended the meeting included O P Grover, state president, Ram Bilas Sharma, Education Minister and Kamla Verma, Minister for Local government, Pardeep Jain, District president of the party and party workers.

Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.


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