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Doubts over fair BJP selections persist
WILL THE Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders be able to do away with the internal squabble in the party and ensure fair selection of the candidates for local bodies? election just by appointing 24 observers? The senior leaders as well as the grass-roots workers of the party are searching for an answer to this question these days.
WILL THE Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders be able to do away with the internal squabble in the party and ensure fair selection of the candidates for local bodies’ election just by appointing 24 observers?
The senior leaders as well as the grass-roots workers of the party are searching for an answer to this question these days. While the prominent local leaders are hopeful of a good outcome, the grassroots workers doubt if the exercise would yield any desired results.
The lower-rung party workers feel how the leaders who had been promoting ‘factionalism’ would now act as impartial observers in selecting candidates.
A 24-member team was set up on Saturday in presence of the party’s State general secretary Ramapati Ram and Dharam Pal Singh who had come to identify the most prospective candidate for mayor.
The team comprises all the former and present public representatives, district presidents including Prem Lata Katiyar, Satish Mahana, Salil Vishnoi, Rakesh Sonkar, Tanvi Haider Usmani, Babu Ram Shukla, Shyam Bihari Mishra, Ravindra Patani, Jagatveer Singh Drone and Neeraj Chaturvedi.
The team members have been directed to begin their job from the birth anniversary of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhaya on September 25.
According to party sources, all the observers will visit 15 divisions on Monday and collect applications from the candidates.
After receiving the applications, they would assess the claims of the candidates impartially at their level. However, a large number of party workers have demanded that before selecting the candidates, party leaders should elect the district president of the party so that the complete process of election could be streamlined.
The grass-root party workers feel that some of the members of the team were aspiring for the post of mayor and as such, they will not be able to make any impartial judgment about the candidates’ selection. They would try to support their own men for the post of corporator.
According to them, the selection would be impartial if the elected district presidents of the party did it. However, the team members have decided to organise meetings on the division basis and finalise the names of the candidates.
On the other hand, the party leaders are also aware of the fact that growing factionalism within the party at the district-level has tarnished its image among the people and the party workers.
But to project a clean image of the party and its leadership, they have decided to initiate the process of scrutinising the claims of the candidates through committees comprising senior leaders.
