BJP in Madhya Pradesh caught in rift between previous & new guards

Express News Service

BHOPAL:  Call it a battle between camps or a divide separating the previous from the brand new, however the BJP in Madhya Pradesh is actually experiencing inner turmoil. And the primary spherical appears to have gone within the favour of the ‘new’ BJP in Sagar district of Bundelkhand area.

Rajkumar Singh Dhanaura, the Sagar district chief of the occasion’s Kisan Morcha, has been faraway from the organisational publish and in addition expelled from the occasion for six years, apparently for a social media publish printed in opposition to MP Transport Minister Govind Singh Rajput.

While Dhanaura is a detailed relative of the state’s Urban Development Minister Bhupendra Singh (thought-about near CM Shivraj  Singh Chouhan), Rajput is claimed to be amongst Jyotiraditya Scindia loyalists.

Singh in addition to Rajput characterize separate seats in Sagar district. While Singh is an MLA from Khurai, Rajput represents the Surkhi seat. Singh has additionally received from Surkhi seat twice up to now.

Dhanaura had not too long ago taken to social media platforms, demanding {that a} native resident and never an outsider candidate be fielded by the BJP from the Surkhi seat within the 2023 Assembly polls. The publish was seen as focusing on sitting MLA Govind Singh Rajput, whose village is located within the adjoining Naryawali-SC constituency of Sagar district.

According to occasion insiders, the matter was communicated to greater ranges within the occasion by Rajput, after which Dhanaura was eliminated as head of Kisan Morcha in Sagar, and in addition expelled from the occasion for six years. Sharing his facet of the story with the media, Dhanaura broke down on Wednesday.

“I met state party president VD Sharma with folded hands and tendered my unconditional apology. But the party for which I religiously worked for the last three decades threw me out like an insect within a minute,” Dhanaura stated.

When requested by journalists about why his relative and minister Bhupendra Singh didn’t come to his rescue, Dhanaura stated, “Sometimes such a situation builds up, when someone, despite wanting to help, cannot actually come forward to support you. This is what happened in my case. Had he (Bhupendra Singh) fought for my cause, it would have sent the wrong message of him intervening in the Assembly constituency of Govind Singh Rajput.”

The sacked chief additional alleged that previous BJP leaders and staff of Surkhi Assembly constituency are being implicated in false felony instances on the behest of those that got here into the BJP from Congress together with Rajput in March 2020.

Sagar district has three Cabinet ministers in Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s authorities, together with BJP veteran Gopal Bhargava and Bhupendra Singh (each previous BJP warhorses). Rajput was among the many 22 Scindia loyalist Congress MLAs who pulled down the 15-month-old Kamal Nath authorities in March 2020.
Meanwhile, making the very best of Dhanaura’s expulsion from the BJP and the following press convention held by the sacked BJP chief (whose father was with BJP since Jan Sangh days), state Congress spokesperson Narendra Saluja focused the saffron occasion. 

“Sacking of MP minister Bhupendra Singh’s relative Rajkumar Singh Dhanaura for opening a front against Scindia loyalist minister Govind Singh Rajput exposes how the tikaus (dependable old BJP men) are being shown the way out to appease the bikaus (saleable new BJP leaders),” Saluja stated.

BHOPAL:  Call it a battle between camps or a divide separating the previous from the brand new, however the BJP in Madhya Pradesh is actually experiencing inner turmoil. And the primary spherical appears to have gone within the favour of the ‘new’ BJP in Sagar district of Bundelkhand area.

Rajkumar Singh Dhanaura, the Sagar district chief of the occasion’s Kisan Morcha, has been faraway from the organisational publish and in addition expelled from the occasion for six years, apparently for a social media publish printed in opposition to MP Transport Minister Govind Singh Rajput.

While Dhanaura is a detailed relative of the state’s Urban Development Minister Bhupendra Singh (thought-about near CM Shivraj  Singh Chouhan), Rajput is claimed to be amongst Jyotiraditya Scindia loyalists.

Singh in addition to Rajput characterize separate seats in Sagar district. While Singh is an MLA from Khurai, Rajput represents the Surkhi seat. Singh has additionally received from Surkhi seat twice up to now.

Dhanaura had not too long ago taken to social media platforms, demanding {that a} native resident and never an outsider candidate be fielded by the BJP from the Surkhi seat within the 2023 Assembly polls. The publish was seen as focusing on sitting MLA Govind Singh Rajput, whose village is located within the adjoining Naryawali-SC constituency of Sagar district.

According to occasion insiders, the matter was communicated to greater ranges within the occasion by Rajput, after which Dhanaura was eliminated as head of Kisan Morcha in Sagar, and in addition expelled from the occasion for six years. Sharing his facet of the story with the media, Dhanaura broke down on Wednesday.

“I met state party president VD Sharma with folded hands and tendered my unconditional apology. But the party for which I religiously worked for the last three decades threw me out like an insect within a minute,” Dhanaura stated.

When requested by journalists about why his relative and minister Bhupendra Singh didn’t come to his rescue, Dhanaura stated, “Sometimes such a situation builds up, when someone, despite wanting to help, cannot actually come forward to support you. This is what happened in my case. Had he (Bhupendra Singh) fought for my cause, it would have sent the wrong message of him intervening in the Assembly constituency of Govind Singh Rajput.”

The sacked chief additional alleged that previous BJP leaders and staff of Surkhi Assembly constituency are being implicated in false felony instances on the behest of those that got here into the BJP from Congress together with Rajput in March 2020.

Sagar district has three Cabinet ministers in Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s authorities, together with BJP veteran Gopal Bhargava and Bhupendra Singh (each previous BJP warhorses). Rajput was among the many 22 Scindia loyalist Congress MLAs who pulled down the 15-month-old Kamal Nath authorities in March 2020.
Meanwhile, making the very best of Dhanaura’s expulsion from the BJP and the following press convention held by the sacked BJP chief (whose father was with BJP since Jan Sangh days), state Congress spokesperson Narendra Saluja focused the saffron occasion. 

“Sacking of MP minister Bhupendra Singh’s relative Rajkumar Singh Dhanaura for opening a front against Scindia loyalist minister Govind Singh Rajput exposes how the tikaus (dependable old BJP men) are being shown the way out to appease the bikaus (saleable new BJP leaders),” Saluja stated.