BJP to decide its stand on BMIC issue at LP meeting

Bangalore, June 18 (UNI) The Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka will take a final stand on the controversial Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor issue at its Legislature Party meeting, to be held here tomorrow.

Informing this to newspersons here after a meeting headed by senior party leader M Venkaiah Naidu, BJP State President D V Sadananda Gowda said the party would take the opinion of its Legislators, before deciding on the issue. His party was committed to take a collective decision to help in the smooth running of the JD(S)-BJP coalition Government, he added.

Mr Naidu, who had been sent by the party to tide over the crisis between the coalition partners after they failed to see eye to eye on the issue, would also be present at the meeting, to be held prior to the Legislature session, he said.

Mr Gowda claimed that there was no major difference of opinion between the two parties, except the mode of distribution of excess land acquired for the project to the farmers. His party was particular in consulting legal experts on the issue in view of the earlier judgements by the High Court and Supreme Court. ''It would be sorted out without any problems,'' he added.

He refused to comment on JD(S) President H D Deve Gowda setting a deadline to the party over the issue. The party was committed to the State's development and taking up BMIC would be vital to send a correct message to the investors, he said.

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