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| PROF HARI OM WAS FEELING SUFFOCATED: BJP LEADER | | | Jammu, August 22 :-Was BJP VicePresident,Prof. Hari Om,really so much preoccupied with his academic activities that he had no other alternative but to quit the party and politics ?Sources close to him and the knowledgeable circles within the BJP do not subscribe with the reason given by Prof. Hari Om in his letter of resignation he submitted to the party President, Ashok Khajuria. A senior BJP leader and a close associate of Prof. Hari Om said today “I do not believe in what the vice president has written in his letter of resignation. He may have other reasons.”He said when he was heading the Department of History in Jammu University and at one stage was Dean of Social Sciences he had many iron on the fire and still functioned,ably,as BJP vicepresident. Others said that after his retirement Prof. Hari Om has more time to spare for the party.They said that after Chander Mohan Sharma quit the party two years ago and formed Praja Parishad alongwith several dissident BJP leaders resignation of Prof. Hari Om could have its adverse impact on the functioning of the BJP.They said “we agree that Prof. Hari Om is not a mass leader nor has he a constituency in the Jammu region but the way he projected the case of the BJP while criticizing various omissions and commissions of the Congress led Government would definitely make the BJP an orphan. Knowledgeable circles within the BJP said that Prof. Hari Om had started “feeling suffocated soon after the change of guard in the organization.”They said the new party leadership used to give patronage to nonentities in the organization with the result the views expressed by Prof. Hari Om were not given any importance.Even his suggestions were being ignored.A stage came when Prof. Hari Om thought that he was being sidelined and was not required to shape and reshape policies of the BJP. Number of senior BJP leaders in Delhi are said to have expressed their dismay over the resignation of Prof. Hari Om.Reports from Delhi said that a couple of leaders favour his return to the party.
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