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| Young Turks challenging hegemony as State BJP under gradual transformation | | Amit Shah Impact? | | Abodh Sharma
JAMMU, July 31: Several leaders who have become faces of BJP's state unit are an insecure lot as the party is under gradual but definite phase of transformation. The trend is being attributed to a new thought and new national leadership under Amit Shah, who is known to prefer new people and fresh ideas over those who have taken the party for granted solely because of their prolonged association to it.
Sources within the party disclose that while senior leaders are feeling insecure ahead of elections, new faces are motivated and upbeat by the space and attention they are getting within the party. Dilip Parihar, Shakti Parihar and Sunil Sharma, who distinguished themselves by becoming eminent voices of minorities in peripheral Doda and Kishtwar districts during testing times have invited the attention of party's national leadership and the RSS as well and are being rewarded with party mandate from these areas.
Besides these leaders, new entrants like Heena Bhat, daughter of noted separatist leader from the Valley and Sunil Sethi, eminent lawyer are being seen as faces of future. Rumors are also ripe about entry of Congress discard and former MP Lal Singh, JSM MLA Ashwini Sharma and even a few JKNPP MLAs and former MLAs into the BJP.
These developments have sent a deep sense of insecurity amongst the senior leaders who had more or less taken their position in the party for granted and the party itself as their personal domain. Sources also divulge that the national leadership has taken the utterances of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah against the sitting BJP MLAs rather seriously in which he had said that the BJP leaders pretended to champion the cause of Jammu in public while they pleaded only their personal issues before him in private.
A strong case has reportedly been made out by young turks such as Yudhvir Sethi, Karan Singh, Rajesh Gupta, Chander Mohan Gupta, Vikram Singh and new entrant Sunil Sethi for the three seats of Jammu and new national leadership has taken strong cognizance of their aspirations and record.
The hegemony of Kavinder Gupta, Ashok Khajuria, Shamsher Singh Manhas and others is being challenged on the grounds that they have got repeated chances and all of them have held several positions of eminence within the party. "Kavinder Gupta has been projected as party candidate for Mayor of Jammu five times. Ashok Khajuria has been party president, Member of national executive and so has been Manhas," said a party office bearer seeking a change.
With a sentiment for change reverberating within the state BJP, Amit Shah impact is clearly at work. |
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