What BJP can do to placate LK Advani

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So far all efforts to get LK Advani to withdraw his resignation have failed.

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, jolted by LK Advani's resignation, are trying hard to placate him. So far all efforts to get Advani to withdraw his resignation have failed.

The party can take the following steps to placate Advani:

- The BJP can make an Election Management Committee

- The party can make an announcement that till the next election no new announcement regarding Narndra Modi will be made.

- The party can also put on hold the strategy to make Modi the new face of BJP.

- The party can come up with a plan to ensure that there is no personality cult in the BJP.

But Advani seems to be in no mood to budge. The way he released his letter pt the media showed that he is extremely upset and not going to backtrack.

The party too seems to be hardening its stand on Advani as attempts to pacify him fail and the party patriarch now looks completely isolated. BJP President Rajnath Singh is going to Banswara in Rajasthan at the time of such a crisis, sources say, to send out the message that it is business as usual in the BJP. Among other key leaders, Arun Jaitley is going abroad and Narendra Modi is staying in Gujarat.

Sources in the BJP say Narendra Modi's elevation is ratified by the National Executive and individuals can't change it. Sources have told CNN-IBN that Rajnath has spoken to the RSS chief and urged him to speak to Advani.

Sources in the Advani camp have told CNN-IBN that the issue of discord is not just confined to Rajnath turning down Advani's demand for a separate election management committee. Advani aides claim the fundamental issue of discord now is how the BJP will be run. CNN-IBN has learned that the real reason is that Advani is upset with the troika of Rajnath and two RSS pointspersons in the party.

Advani blames partymen Suresh Soni and Ram Lal, aided by Rajnath Singh, for pushing Modi's case without a consensus. Interestingly RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat spoke to Advani a few days back when the National Executive was on. Bhagwat will meet Advani on June 18 in Delhi to discuss the ongoing controversy. However, Rajnath Singh has explained that the RSS has no hand in the decision to promote Narendra Modi as campaign committee chief.