Addressing reporters here on Thursday, Vaghela said he was ready for a discussion in Rajkot at a time and date decided by the Chief Minister. Alleging that Singh had in the letter stated that oil prices could not be controlled as the BJP had taken money from the oil barons, he said the Chief Minister's office was preventing him from taking action against them.

He said whatever action had been initiated lately, was only after recovering poll funds from oil millers.

RJP spokesman Kishorsinh Solanki said his party's women's wing will take out rallies from four different places in Gujarat to protest against price rise. He said the rallies, covering 6,500 km between September 6 and 16, will start from Ambaji, Chotila, Surat and Ahmedabad. A total 60 talukas in 182 assembly constituencies will be covered.

The rallies will be followed by submitting memoranda, holding dharnas and tala bandhi of the mamlatdars and civic supply offices by partymen. The state-wide bandh on September 18 would be the programme's culmination.

Vaghela said the RJP would soon release `Black Paper - II' about the `deeds' of the BJP government.

On recent instances of alleged attacks on minority communities, he said the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Bajrang Dal were trying to divert attention of the masses from the spiralling prices of essential commodities.

The instances in Bardoli and Santrampur were an indication, he said, claiming that fathers of two girls of Santrampur, who he alleged were in the `custody' of the VHP, were planning to file a habeas corpus. The girls reportedly had affairs with Muslim boys.

Demanding a solution to the Narmada issue on the lines of the Cauvery issue, he alleged that the BJP was keeping the Narmada issue alive to gain popular support. Vaghela said the party would delay the decision-making process until elections were held in Madhya Pradesh, ``or else the Congress would get the credit.''

He said instead of taking action against the World Commission on Dams, the BJP was only opposing it verbally. He said if the RJP was in power, the commission members would have already been behind bars. Reiterating that Gujarat be allowed to raise the height of the dam as per Tribunal's Award, Vaghela pointed out that Gujarat had failed to explain the Narmada issue to the world.