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From Tughlakabad To Kondli, Dissent Plagues Delhi BJP Over Candidate Choice For Polls – News18
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Issues went so dangerous that the BJP needed to launch a 3rd listing consisting of a single identify after one of many candidates – Mohan Singh Bisht – brazenly rebelled towards the occasion management.
One of many major seats the place dissent was seen was Tughlaqabad — a seat Ramesh Bidhuri represented for 3 phrases as MLA since 2008. (Picture: PTI)
Ever because the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) introduced its two candidate lists for Delhi Meeting Election, there was rising discontent and dissent inside the ranks of the occasion over candidate choice. In actual fact, issues went so dangerous that the BJP needed to launch a 3rd listing consisting of a single identify after the stated candidate – Mohan Singh Bisht – brazenly rebelled towards the occasion management.
From shouting slogans to accusing BJP leaders of being unaware of the bottom state of affairs, dissent overflowed, costing embarrassment to the occasion that takes pleasure in holding its cadres disciplined.
PROTESTS OVER TUGHLAKABAD, KARAWAL NAGAR CANDIDATES
One of many major seats the place dissent was seen was Tughlakabad — a seat Ramesh Bidhuri represented for 3 phrases as MLA since 2008. BJP’s second listing was launched on Saturday. On this, the names of 29 candidates had been introduced. On this listing, Rohtas Bidhuri has been fielded from the Tughlakabad seat. Nonetheless, within the 2020 meeting elections, Vikram Bidhuri — Ramesh Bidhuri’s relative — contested this seat and he misplaced to Sahiram of Aam Aadmi Get together by greater than 13,000 votes, which is the rationale he’s not being given a ticket this time from Tughlakabad. However that didn’t cease his supporters from agitating. Protestors from Tughlakabad in South Delhi reached the Delhi BJP workplace and staged a protest on the gate. The protesting employees demanded a change of candidate for this seat. The matter didn’t cease at that. In extremely dramatised optics that had been certain to serve the AAP, indignant protesters additionally raised slogans of “Modi tujhse bair nahi, Rohtas teri khair nahi (We’ve got no discontent with you, Modi, however, Rohtas, you gained’t be spared)”.
Afraid of an inside hit job at Rohtas Bidhuri, the present BJP candidate from Tughlakabad, the BJP tried to not take the disciplinary route and as a substitute reached out to them saying, the occasion will guarantee Rohtas will take everybody alongside as soon as he wins, stated sources.
However this didn’t cease at pro-Vikram Bidhuri slogans. The BJP fielded former AAP minister Kapil Mishra from Karawal Nagar, disregarding the five-time MLA Bisht, forcing Bisht to show insurgent. Bisht — an Uttarakhandi and Rajput face – performed the sufferer card. He brazenly criticised the BJP management and known as fielding Mishra, whom he known as “aire gaire natthu khaire”, a “large mistake”.
“The BJP thinks they’ll discipline anybody and he’ll win. This can be a large mistake. Solely time will inform what is going to occur in Burari, Karawal Nagar, Ghonda, Seelampur, Gokalpuri, and Nand Nagri seats,” he threatened, forcing the BJP to open an in a single day communication channel with him to guarantee Bisht {that a} third listing bearing solely his identify could be put out. That is precisely what occurred as BJP’s third listing, bearing solely his identify, was launched saying he could be contesting from Mustafabad.
MEHRAULI, MADIPUR & MORE
This isn’t the primary time dissent oozed out through the run-up to Delhi election. After the listing of candidates was launched, the Delhi BJP workplace witnessed protests like these the occasion workplace witnessed by the pro-Vikram Bidhuri faction. Even after the discharge of BJP’s first listing, the same protest was carried out by some occasion employees exterior the Delhi BJP workplace towards Mehrauli candidate Gajendra Yadav.
Protests had been witnessed in Kondli and Madipur as properly. In these two constituencies, the BJP feels, protests are being engineered by the occasion’s “upset” Dalit ticket aspirants “who consider they’ve been intentionally denied”, stated a BJP functionary. Each these seats are reserved seats, and the BJP has fielded ladies candidates from each locations. The saffron occasion has fielded Urmila Kailash Gangwar from Madipur and Priyanka Gautam from Kondli.
Get together sources say, the BJP, not like different constituencies, haven’t been fully profitable in convincing the upset members of SC Morcha who had been steering the protests in each these locations.
Information elections From Tughlakabad To Kondli, Dissent Plagues Delhi BJP Over Candidate Choice For Polls
