Mr Napa has stated he’ll be a part of the Congress.
Chandigarh:
A day after the ruling BJP introduced its first checklist of 67 candidates for the October 5 Haryana meeting polls, the celebration confronted rise up with Minister Ranjit Singh Chautala and MLA Lakshman Dass Napa who have been denied tickets quitting the celebration.
Power and Jails Minister Ranjit Chautala (79), son of former deputy prime minister Devi Lal, stated he took a choice after a gathering along with his supporters and can now enter the fray as an Unbiased.
Mr Napa stop the celebration after being denied ticket whereas former minister Karan Dev Kamboj additionally stepped down as state BJP’s OBC Morcha chief after celebration ignored his candidature.
The insurgent bother for BJP began shortly after it got here out with the primary checklist of candidates.
After quitting the celebration, Mr Napa met former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda at his residence within the nationwide capital and later stated he might be becoming a member of the Congress alongside along with his supporters.
Ranjit Chautala known as a gathering of his supporters after the celebration ignored his candidature from Rania section in Sirsa district.
“I took the choice after consulting my supporters,” he stated when requested about his transfer.
“I had good relations with them (BJP). They gave me Lok Sabha ticket (from Hisar, which he fought unsuccessfully). However do not know on whose recommendation they’ve acted. I’ll say anybody who has given them this recommendation has triggered injury to the celebration,” Mr Chautala stated.
“I’m Chaudhary Devi Lal’s son. I’ve some stature… I’ve determined to contest as an Unbiased,” he stated, whereas including he has resigned as minister and stop the BJP.
Mr Chautala hoped to contest from Rania seat however the BJP fielded Shishpal Kamboj as an alternative. He had resigned as Unbiased MLA from Rania forward of the Lok Sabha polls to hitch the BJP and fought the Hisar parliamentary seat unsuccessfully.
Mr Napa, sitting MLA from Ratia reserve constituency in Fatehabad district, stated he served his constituency with full dedication and undertook improvement works. He stated he doesn’t know why the celebration denied him re-nomination from the meeting section.
Mr Napa stated he had met Mr Hooda Thursday morning. “I’m becoming a member of the Congress,” he stated.
Former minister Karan Dev Kamboj stated he has resigned as state president of Haryana BJP’s OBC Morcha and from all celebration posts he held.
Mr Kamboj, who was additionally a ticket hopeful however didn’t get it, stated he had been serving the celebration over time with dedication.
“Maybe the BJP doesn’t want loyalists anymore,” he stated, including the celebration is rewarding leaders with tickets who joined a day earlier than whereas ignoring those that served it for years.
A couple of sitting legislators, together with minister Sanjay Singh and former minister Sandeep Singh, don’t determine within the first checklist of BJP candidates.
From Ratia, the celebration has fielded former Sirsa MP Sunita Duggal. Within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Ms Duggal was denied re-nomination from the Sirsa parliamentary constituency after former Haryana Congress chief Ashok Tanwar, who had joined BJP forward of the LS polls, was given the ticket.
Mr Tanwar, nevertheless, misplaced to Congress veteran Kumari Selja.
Former Haryana minister and senior BJP chief Kavita Jain, a ticket hopeful from Sonipat, was additionally reportedly sulking after celebration fielded Nikhil Madan from the constituency.
Addressing her supporters in Sonipat, she turned emotional, and stated she had at all times labored as a devoted soldier for her celebration and her candidature ought to have been thought-about.
In its first checklist launched on Wednesday, the BJP fielded Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, who’s the sitting MLA from Karnal, from the Ladwa seat, and rewarded a number of current entrants to the celebration with ballot tickets.
The BJP is aiming for a hat-trick in Haryana however faces powerful problem from a resurgent Congress which is trying to money in on the anti-incumbency issue.
Mr Saini is the BJP’s chief ministerial face for the meeting polls. The counting of votes for the elections to the 90-member meeting will happen on October 8.
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