New Delhi: Whodunit -- that's what the BJP wants to know as it investigates press reports behind the mysterious Apte report.
In Shimla, the party denied the existence of the report. But on Sunday, Swapan Dasgupta -- a senior journalist close to the BJP -- questioned that the flutter over the report is worrying.
He wrote, "The BJP has been conducting its own inquiry of how this document got into the kit for delegates, who wrote it, who divulged it to the media, etc. What this inquiry is likely to throw up is of no consequence to us. What is relevant, however, is the phenomenon of internal sabotage."
Well before the chintan baithak, NDTV had accessed the talking points prepared by Bal Apte.
Now, in an interview to NDTV, some leaders say the Apte report was discussed but it wasn't the one leaked to the press.
"But I can tell you that party had circulated certain material. One is about factual sheet about the election performance of last two times of the BJP and other parties. And then Shri Bal Apte had identified certain issues for discussion. He had mentioned them and we discussed about the organization; we discussed about how to articulate the ideologies," senior BJP leader Venkiah Naidu said.
But with more insiders turning outsiders, the BJP's leadership perhaps needs to focus on fundamental problems rather than chase up press leaks.