Charan Singh was by now elected the head of the national executive of the BKD, and an appeal was made among party members to reopen talks with like-minded parties once again to “coalesce” and create a broader political organisation that would challenge and replace the Congress. The multiplicity of parties in the country posed a significant danger to the country’s security and a strong unified party would give the prevailing political structure the strength it so needed. A letter to Vajpayee dated April 15, 1969 hints discord between them on the matter — Vajpayee saw the BKD as a vehicle for the ambitions of a certain caste and expressed doubt on the party’s funding. Characteristically withholding and yet trenchant in his reply, Singh notes that the failure of coming together to arrest the tide of communism and chaos in the country will bear harshly on the coming generations, and expressed regret that the Jan Sangh is unable to support this mission. A tone of alarm is noted in his letter dated May 3, 1969 to Dr. Harekrushna Mahtab where he expresses the same worry over the Congress which is “bound to disintegrate” — if no other party presents an alternative in this vacuum of power, the communists with their foreign associations would be sure to seize the reins.