Khurana’s Comeback in BJP’s Mumbai Meet

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- By Aditi R Raja, December 19, 2005, 09:54 IST

Mumbai: Former Rajasthan Governor Madan Lal Khurana has confirmed that he has been invited to the BJP’s national convention in Mumbai, to be held from December 28 to 30. The veteran, at present only a regular member of the BJP, however, does not figure on the list for the party’s Executive Meeting scheduled in Mumbai for December 26 and 27.
 
BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has referred to Khurana as “senior BJP leader” and “Former Delhi Chief Minister”, in his invite to the leader. “I have received the invitation for the national convention in Mumbai. But I have not been invited to the executive meeting”, established Khurana. The BJP had not invited Khurana to September’s Executive Meeting in Chennai.
 
Khurana was temporarily disqualified from the BJP, in July, for his outbursts against party chief L K Advani when he had openly asked Advani to make an apology for the Gujarat violence. Khurana had referred to Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh’s acknowledgment for the 1984 riots.
 
Khurana had consequently expressed remorse and was recalled to the party as an ordinary member.