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Floods wash away many a political ambitions within BJP 9/23/2014 12:00:52 AM Abodh Sharma JAMMU, Sept 22: Recent floods across Jammu and Kashmir have washed away not just precious lives and property in Jammu and Kashmir, but also political ambitions of many within state BJP who were expecting to ride over the strong Modi wave that swept last Parliamentary elections. With unprecedented floods negating any political activity in the state atleast for the next couple of months, the political ambitions of these BJP aspirants are slowly ebbing out and the recent results of the Assembly by polls in four states have further dampened their ambitions. The enthusiasm and the spirit that was imbibed in the workers by the results of Parliamentary elections and visit of the party president Amit Shah has started dampening and the factionalism has starting overcoming it once again. Sources within the party divulge that with elections in the state likely to be deferred by a few months, the 'stalwarts' have started getting insecure and interestingly there is an inclination to rope in those who recently joined BJP into their respective factions. "The senior leaders of the party are going overboard to alien these influential new entrants into their factions as they are understood to have close proximity with the national leadership of the party," said a senior party functionary. He, however, rued that there is a shameful contest between the party leadership to project these new entrants as 'senior leaders' eventhough they have been in the party for just a couple of months. "There was time when leaders like Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta and Daya Krishan Kotwal were termed as senior leaders, but now, people with just a few weeks in the party like Lal Singh, Farooq Khan, and S S Bijral are being projected as senior leaders to the dismay and anguish of party's second string leadership," he added.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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