A team of senior ministers of Patel cabinet will meet former Prime Minister Deve Gowda and senior leader of the party S R Bommai with a suggestion to avoid the show of strength. Their meeting with the senior leaders is likely to take place on Monday and the process of conveying the opinion of all legislators will go on for two days.

``The show of strength in actual numbers is embarrassing to the party leadership at this juncture and we are trying to avoid it'' a said a senior minister in the Patel cabinet. The national executive of the party too is thinking on the same lines.

It is pointed out that among the thirteen members of the executive in Delhi, nine are opposed to Deve Gowda and this team has decided against the show of strength in the JDLP meeting. They feel that the JDLP canbe used to discuss all reservations, comments, allegations against Patel government instead of telling the world the exact numbers of dissidents and loyalists in the party, the minister said.

A spokesman for the dissidents said that leadership issue is the main topic to be raised in the meeting. He suggested that if the high command intends to avoid it, the dissidents will demand a secret ballot in the meeting so that the the exact strength of dissidents and loyalists is not exposed.

A minister however said that it would be meaningless to save Patel in the Assembly on Tuesday and ask for a leadership change in the party meeting on Friday.

The dissidents have made it clear that they would support Patel in the no confidence motion as their main demand of announcement of the date of JDLP meeting before the debate on the no confidence emotion began has been met with.