NEW DELHI/BANGALORE, Oct 27: Janata Dal Secretary General Bapu Kaldate today said that the contentious Karnataka JD Legislature Party (JDLP) meeting would not take place before Friday, the scheduled day of commencement of legislature session, and the date would be decided at the party later.Talking to newsmen after meeting with Karnataka Chief Minister J H Patel who is on official visit here, Kaldate said he had received the letter of Patel expressing his inability to postpone the legislature session and leaving the issue of convening the JDLP to the party. ``I am in touch with the party president,'' he added.He said the party was happy that the developments in Karnataka JD was moving towards a solution and even former prime minister H D Deve Gowda, who has become focal point of the legislators opposed to Patel, had told him that efforts were on to sort out the issue. ``We want unity of the party to be maintained,'' he said.Meanwhile, the dissident MLAs would meet in Bangalore tomorrow to chalk outtheir future course of action.Sources close to former prime minister, H D Deve Gowda, who is in the forefront of dissidence said tomorrow's meeting would decide on the stand to be adopted by rebels during the legislature session beginning on October 29.The meeting assumes significance in the wake of Patel expressing inability to comply with the dissidents' demand to convene the JDLP meeting before the legislature session to sort out leadership change issue.Patel, who welcomed the party president, Sharad Yadav's directive to him to postpone the legislature session and to sort out the issues raised by rebels at the JDLP meeting, wrote to him about the ``legal and technical difficulties'' in putting off the session, for which the governor has already issued a notification.Gowda said though he had been informed of the views expressed by Patel on the issue of postponing the legislature session, he would have to consult partymen prior to coming to decision.With Gowda asserting that the leadershipissue was still open, the crisis raging in the ruling party continued unabated with no solution.
