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Call on Advani's role to be taken after consulting him: Rajnath

Gandhinagar: With exit polls projecting victory for NDA, BJP president Rajnath Singh today said top party leaders will meet and decide the roles of the veterans including L K Advani after consulting them. “As far

There were talks of Advani being offered the post of NDA Parliamentary Party leader or Speaker of the next Lok Sabha.

The party will also have to decide on the part to be played by another veteran Murali Manohar Joshi, a former BJP president, who was reportedly unhappy when he was shifted from Varanasi to Kanpur to pave the way for Modi to contest the seat.

Though Singh remained tight-lipped about the agenda of their meeting with Modi, issues like formation of the next government and tasks to be assigned to seniors like Advani, Joshi and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj could be discussed.

“We will sit and decide the agenda. But one thing is confirmed that Narendrabhai Modi is going to become the next prime minister of this country,” Singh said when asked about the agenda of their meeting.