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New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party is all set to welcome back veteran leader Madan Lal Khurana into its fold.
A formal announcement to this effect is expected to be made by party chief Rajnath Singh soon by revoking his expulsion.
Khurana, who was responsible for making the BJP a major political force in Delhi, left the party last year and joined hands with former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti.
Khurana's return to the party will give the BJP a boost in the run up to the Delhi legislative assembly polls slated for later this year. The former Delhi chief minister had called on Singh and L.K. Advani, BJP's likely prime ministerial candidate for the forthcoming general elections, and tendered an apology for his conduct over the past few years.
Spent force
"The BJP has accepted his unconditional apology to both the party and Advani," a senior central office bearer of the party said.
The party central leadership has decided to re-induct Khurana into the fold despite stiff resistance from its state unit, which feels he is a spent force and would not be of much use to them during the assembly elections.
The BJP's Delhi state unit president Dr Harshvardhan and Prof Vijay Kumar Malhotra, who is likely to be projected by the BJP as its chief ministerial candidate, were opposed to Khurana's return to the fold.
"The decision to bring him back is more of a sympathetic move to rehabilitate him and send a signal to some other rebels that the doors of the party are open to them provided them mend their ways," the party leader said. The BJP has been under pressure from its parent organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to bring back the rebels.
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