Crisis within BJP a passing phase: Sushma

New Delhi, Oct 31 (PTI) The bad patch that Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) was going through due to successive
election defeats and its internal problems, including the
Karnataka crisis, were a passing phase, party senior leader
Sushma Swaraj Saturday said and was confident that it will
emerge stronger soon.

"In every political party, there are good and bad phases.
This is a passing phase. We will come out of it soon. You can
take this as a prophecy," Swaraj said in reply to a question
on the internal squabbles in the BJP and its defeats in recent
elections.
She was speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit
here.
When asked specifically about the problems in the BJP
unit in India's southern state of Karnataka, where the Reddy
brothers are claiming the support of 60 party MLAs (Members of
Legislative Assembly) and demanding that Karnataka Chief
Minister B S Yeddyurappa should step down, Swaraj said the
crisis would be resolved "in a day or two".
She refuted reports that the party central leadership had
asked her to placate the dissidents.
"I have not been deputed to talk to them. M Venkaiah
Naidu and Arun Jaitley have been given this responsibility and
they are in touch with the group," she said.
In reply to another question on whether mining interests
of Bellary brothers were the reason behind the dissidence,
Swaraj said, "In this crisis, there is no mining interest."
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