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Panthers Party dumps Hiranagar candidate, prefers BJP rebel 11/11/2014 12:07:19 AM Early Times Report kathua, Nov 10: Peculiar situation has arisen in Hiranagar assembly segment after the sitting BharatiyaJanta Party (BJP) MLA said goodbye to his party and joined Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP). The decision to grant entry to sitting BJP MLA DurgaDass in Panthers Party has left the already announced candidate of the party fuming as he was busy preparing for the upcoming Assembly polls. The sulking Panthers Party leader, Ramdhan who was declared as official party candidate from Hiranagar is annoyed over the party's sudden change of heart. Sources informed Early Times that Ramdhan is contemplating to quit the party and is searching for other options to keep his political ambitions afloat. "Ramdhan is not at all amused with the entry of DurgaDass into Panthers Party as he has sensed that party may field Dass from Hiranagar and would dump him," said sources. "Party leadership has ditched me. I have been left in the lurch by Panthers as the party is now almost ready to give mandate to DurgaDass. Party top brass has ignored all my efforts which I had put in to consolidate the party in Hiranagar," sources quoted Ramdhan as having said. "The campaign spearheaded in Hiranagar by me till now and the amount of money which has been spent so far would all go waste. Party leadership is asking me to withdraw from the contest and is offering me Rs 50,000 as compensation for the expenses I incurred on canvassing which is gross injustice with me. I have spent a lot more than what is being offered to me by the party leadership," Ramdhan is understood to have told his supporters. It is worthwhile to mention here that the sitting BJP MLA from Hiranagar constituency Durga Das after being denied a ticket by the BJP was not in a mood to sit back as he expressed his strong resentment over the party's decision to field Kuldeep Kumar from there. Das along with six other BJP MLAs were expelled from the BJP in connection with cash-for-vote scam in the Legislative Council polls in 2011 which ultimately prevented their names from getting cleared for the BJP mandate even as the party revoked expulsion of five of them in January 2014 and granted amnesty to two others just before LokSabha polls.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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