The BJP final week introduced its listing of 39 candidates for the upcoming meeting elections.
Bhopal:
A whole bunch of BJP staff in Bhopal protested the denial of a ticket to former MLA Rajendra Verma from Sonkatch on the identical day that 39 BJP candidates attended a coaching session on electioneering on the occasion’s headquarters.
The protests coincided with a coaching session on electioneering on the occasion’s Bhopal headquarters attended by state BJP chief VD Sharma and Union Ministers Bhupendra Yadav, Ashwini Vaishnaw, and Narendra Singh Tomar.
The denial of a ticket to Mr Verma is just not an remoted case. There may be resentment amongst occasion staff and supporters of BJP leaders who’ve been denied tickets from different seats within the state, together with Maharajpur, Chattarpur, Banda, Sumawali, Sabalgarh, Lanji, Pandhurna, and Saunsar.
BJP staff from Dewas district’s Sonkatch-SC meeting constituency traveled to Bhopal in a convoy of 400-450 autos to protest the denial of a ticket to the previous MLA on the state occasion headquarters. The employees, who ranged from booth-level staff to village sarpanchs and different native leaders, carried placards demanding that Mr Verma be re-nominated to the seat he gained in 2013 however misplaced by lower than 10,000 votes in 2018.
Sonkatch-SC has historically been a Congress stronghold. The occasion has gained the seat 4 occasions since 1985, whereas the BJP has gained 3 times. Former minister Sajjan Singh Verma, a loyalist of Kamal Nath, has gained the seat 4 occasions for the Congress within the final 38 years, together with within the 2018 election, when he defeated the incumbent BJP MLA Rajendra Verma by over 9,700 votes.
The BJP has changed Rajendra Verma with Rajesh Sonkar, the occasion’s district president of neighbouring Indore district, as its candidate for the Sonkatch-SC seat in Dewas district. Mr Sonkar is seen as a supporter of former Indore MP and former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan.
The BJP final week introduced its listing of 39 candidates for the upcoming meeting elections in Madhya Pradesh and 21 candidates for Chhattisgarh. The polls are nonetheless months away from being formally introduced by the Election Fee, however the BJP is clearly gearing up for a struggle. Each states presently have non-BJP governments.
