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Onkar Singh in New Delhi
Samata Party spokesman Shambhu Srivastav said on Monday that the party's national executive is now considering three issues:
Srivastav, who was in charge of the party's affairs in Manipur, said he had explained the situation there to the national executive, after which George Fernandes, as convener of the NDA, explained the national perspective.
"The matters are being debated. The two Jharkhand ministers, Ramchandra Kesri and Ramesh Singh, have told the national executive that they will resign the moment the central leadership tells them to do so," he said.
Srivastav said two emissaries of the prime minister had come with a request that Fernandes attend the NDA meeting. "We have told them that the Samata Party national executive is in session, so Georgesaab cannot attend," he said.
He, however, made it clear that the option of talks with the NDA was still being kept open and a final decision would be taken in the night. But he added that whatever Fernandes decided, "no matter how harsh", it would be acceptable to everyone in the party.
But he said they had rejected the BJP's claim that it was not interested in forming the government in Manipur, saying that after what that party had done, such offers were meaningless.
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