Bhuntar (HP): A day after advocating the need for free expression and understanding the shortcomings within BJP, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Wednesday hinted that doors were open for expelled leaders Uma Bharti and Madan Lal Khurana to return to the party fold.
"There is always scope for return of the people who left the party and efforts are being made being to strengthen the party," Vajpayee told reporters here enroute to his summer sojourn in Manali.
He was responding to a question on the possible return of Bharti and Khurana to the party fold.
The party had been consistently maintaining that the issue was a 'closed chapter' after the Central Parliamentary Board's decision expelling Bharti from primary membership of the party.
Khurana, alongwith Sangh Priya Gautam, were expelled from the party after they had attended a 'Janadesh Rally' organized by Bharti in Delhi.
Apparently hurt by the exit of senior leaders, including former Jharkhand Chief Minister Babulal Marandi, from the party, Vajpayee had, in his valedictory address to BJP national executive meeting in Delhi yesterday, advocated the need for free expression and understanding the shortcomings within the party.
He said though not many leaders had left BJP, the issue of some leaders leaving it needed to be looked into.
Asked about Vajpayee's views, party President Rajnath Singh told reporters he had not seen them. He claimed Vajpayee had asked both who were leaving the party and the BJP to do introspection.
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