Dehradun: Apparently buoyed by the dissidence in the party at the national level, BJP MLAs opposed to Uttarakhand Chief Minister B C Khanduri on Saturday met at the residence of his rival B S Koshiyari to chalk out their strategy.
The meeting generated speculation that the legislators, including some ministers, could threaten resignation to make the high command force the chief minister to quit in the wake of the party's rout in the Lok Sabha elections.
Sources in the dissidents camp said that their MLAs may resign from the Assembly, where the BJP has a wafer-thin majority with 35 members in the House with an effective strength of 69.
The latest move came days after the party high command had decide to maintain status quo in the state despite Khanduri submitting his resignation to BJP president Rajnath Singh.
"The final decision will be taken by the high command but the MLAs are overwhelmingly favouring Koshiyari as chief minister," a top state BJP leader from the dissidents' camp said.
Plagued by infighting in its state unit, the BJP is now precariously placed as it had lost all the five Lok Sabha seats in the hill state to the Congress and is not keen to face a mid-term Assembly polls.
Amid speculation of BJP MLAs planning to quit, Assembly Speaker Harbans Kapoor said he had not received any resignation letter from any MLA till now.