Tough to retain power in HP even as Nadda & Thakur march to pacify rebels
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Shimla, Oct 28 – An uphill journey to retain power in Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election forced BJP president Jagat Prakash Nadda in his own state and Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur to be on midnight burner to pacify rebels candidate on around 16 Assembly seats.
BJP former MP and scion of the Royal dynasty Kullu Maheswar Singh talked to Nadda and Jai Ram Thakur Thursay night here. Maheshwar Singh talking to media persons at Kullu Friday after returning from Shimla said he couldn’t take the responsibility to remove his son Hiteshwar Singh from the race as an independent candidate against BJP sitting MLA Surender Shourie as he filled out nomination form Banjar Assembly.
Importantly, on the last date of filling nomination on October 25 BJP dumped Maheshwar Singh too as the party’s official candidate from Kullu after changing his ticket with a retired teacher Narottum Singh who belonged to Manikaran valley. Party decided to take action when Hiteshwar Singh did not vacate the race. “I couldn’t take a contract in lieu of being in the race to offer party to remove my son from the race. I have apprised about the appalling reason why my son decided to run against party-sitting MLA Surender Shourie. I have also told BJP leader that at the fag end of his Political carrier after remaining with the party throughout his public life he may prefer to not remain in the race as an Independent candidate or join Congress provided his local party supporters or Constituents should also agree with this.
BJP realizing a double loss in Banjar and Kullu Assembly with duo father-son duo managed to bring Maheshwar Singh to last minute consultation table but he seemed to be spell dooms on the party as novice Narottam Singh may not counter string anti-incumbency against BJP government.BJP president Suresh Kashyap chief minister Jai Ram Thakur and JP Nadda trying to pacify rebels candidate to withdraw from the race in favor of party official contenders and they are working to stop the party’s prospect to get a repeat in Himachal Pradesh.
Importantly, BJP has succeeded to remove one such rebel Yovraj Thakur from Theog, Kishori Lal from Anni and Paras Ram from Bharmour and many such rebels are on the party agenda till tomorrow till the last date of withdrawal of nomination. After the rejection of 45 nominations now total 740 candidates are in the race including 16 BJP and 8 Congress major dissidents who are opposing both parties to not give them party tickets. Former BJP president Sat Pal Sati in the run for to 2017 Assembly Election also had lost Election to pacify rebels, a BJP worker said on conditions of anonymity.
Congress campaign committee in-charge Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu also urged party dissidents to not jump into the race to return Congress to power. BJP facing rebels on Barsar, Jogindernagar, Sundernagar, Theog, Kullu, Nalagarh, Banjar, Theog, Rohru, Kinnaur, Mandi, Dehragopipur, Dharmshala and a number of other Assembly seats. BJP also tried to change a number of tickets of sitting MLAs refused to remove from the race. Congress rebels are fray from Chopal, Hamirpur, Theog, Kinnaur and Nalagarh, Arki and former party MLA from Gagret and Shahapur. State goes to poll on November 12 in all 68 Assembly constituencies in a single phase Election.
