Azad takes dig at BJP

In an apparent dig at the reported rift between BJP leaders L K Advani and Narendra Modi, senior Congress leader and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said it is for BJP to solve it as his party is not behind it.
"There is a rift in the leadership in one party and that rift has to be settled by BJP itself. Fortunately, Congress is not the cause of the rift," Azad said when asked by scribes here to comment on the alleged rift between the two leaders.
BJP was in a dilemma today over anointing Modi, the Gujarat chief minister, as campaign committee chief for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in the absence of patriarch L K Advani and other senior leaders, who have not turned up for the ongoing National Executive meeting at Panaji as they are said to be opposed to such a move.

Ill health was cited as the reason for Advani's decision to keep away from the two-day meeting of the National Executive that began today as leaders clamoured for Modi's elevation as campaign head for the elections.