New Delhi: Hardening its line on the issue of discipline in the party and its hindutva stand in the run up to Assembly polls in four Congress-ruled states later this year, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani on January 20 asked BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) units there to set their house in order and launch an aggressive campaign to showcase its core ideology.

Stating that the party "will have to sort out internal problems" keeping in view the dissidence, he said the party needs to present a picture of unity.

Addressing BJP office-bearers of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Chattisgarh, Advani said the party was "clear in its ideology and programmes and BJP is not apologetic about it."

Addressing the party office bearers from these four states, he said, "anti-incumbency mood is palpable in these states and BJP will have to focus failures of the state governments."

BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu warned party men not to cross the "lakshman rekha" and make public internal matters of the party.

"Party units in the states should see to it that the leaders do not make internal matters of the party public and discuss the same, if any, in the internal forum of the party. The party will not tolerate anybody crossing the Lakshman rekha," he said asking state units to work like a team.

Briefing reporters after the meeting, party spokesman Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said the Ram temple issue, Uniform Civil Code and abrogation of Article 370 giving special status to Jammu and Kashmir continue to be on the party's agenda for the Assembly elections.

PTI