Heartburn for occasion staff as BJP denies tickets to 38 sitting legislators, fielding recent faces, Congress turncoats, and non-local leaders as a substitute
Heartburn for occasion staff as BJP denies tickets to 38 sitting legislators, fielding recent faces, Congress turncoats, and non-local leaders as a substitute
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) first record of 160 candidates for the Gujarat Assembly polls has led to protests by occasion staff at a number of locations within the State.
In its first record introduced on Thursday, the ruling occasion has denied tickets to as many as 38 sitting legislators, together with a number of stalwarts, as a substitute preferring recent faces in a bid to impact a generational change within the occasion’s State management. Candidates for an additional 22 seats can be introduced later.
The occasion has additionally given prominence to Congress turncoats, inflicting heartburns amongst its staff and cadres who will now should work for them to make sure their victory within the State polls.
In Ahmedabad’s Naroda seat, the BJP gave a ticket to 29-year-old Payal Kukrani, whose father Manoj was convicted and awarded life imprisonment within the 2002 Naroda Patiya riots case. He is presently out on bail. Local occasion staff demanded that one other candidate be fielded as a substitute of Ms. Kukrani, whose mom Reshma is already a municipal councillor representing the occasion in Saijpur, Ahmedabad.
In Godhra, the BJP has repeated its sitting legislator C.Ok. Raulji, who was a member of the district jail advisory committee that unanimously really useful the untimely launch of the convicts serving life sentences within the Bilkis Bano rape and bloodbath case from the 2002 riots. Mr Raulji even defended the choice, contending that “their conduct was good and many of them were Brahmins so they have good sanskars.”
In reality, Mr. Raulji can also be a Congress turncoat who had defected to the BJP in the course of the late Congress chief Ahmed Patel’s Rajya Sabha election in 2017. He had received with a slender margin on the BJP ticket within the 2017 polls and has now been repeated by the occasion.
In a number of locations in Saurashtra, the BJP confronted protests by offended staff, together with at Mahuva within the Bhavnagar district and within the Gadhada and Botad seats within the Botad district.
In Mahuva, the occasion has fielded the previous legislator from the Talala seat, Shiva Gohil, who isn’t an area resident of Mahuva. The occasion staff have demanded {that a} native occasion chief be named because the candidate.
In Botad, the occasion has fielded a Congress turncoat. In Gadhada, a seat reserved for the Scheduled Caste neighborhood, a Dalit chief and former Rajya Sabha member has been fielded though he too isn’t an area resident of the realm.
Similarly in Vaghodia, the occasion has denied a ticket to five-time legislator Madhu Srivastav, who could contest as an unbiased candidate. In one other seat within the Vadodara district additionally, native leaders and staff have protested in opposition to the candidate chosen by the occasion.
However, the State BJP leaders keep that the employees can be pacified as soon as all of the candidates of the occasion have been introduced. “Little reaction is natural but it will be taken care of in next 2-3 days,” a celebration chief stated.
Source: www.thehindu.com
