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| Hectic parleys on to persuade Hari Om to return to pilitics | | Shanta Kumar to visit Jammu to sort out | |
Jammu, August 23: The state unit of the BJP which has been hit hard by the recent resignation of party vice president, Prof. Hari Om, from the organization in Jammu is hoping to rebound as hectic behind the scene parleys are on to persuade Prof Hari Om to review his decision to withdraw from active politics.
Informed sources in state BJP unit said here today that the party high command has taken serious note of the recent developments in the state BJP unit and has entrusted state party incharge,Mr Shanta Kumar, a former Himachal Chief Minister, to visit the state’s winter capital for persuading Hari Om to withdraw his resignation.
Prof. Hari Om,who has been also acting as the spokes person of the state unit of the BJP, had earlier sent his resignation letter to the party Chief,Mr Ashok Khajuria,on Tuesday in which he had announced his resignation because his academic commitment did not allow him to perform his functions as the party vice president.
No sooner senior BJP leaders in the state conveyed to the party high command in Delhi that Hari Om had resigned because he felt “suffocated”under the new leadership which had started patronizing nonentities a decision was taken to send Mr Shanta Kumar to Jammu for sorting out the problem and persuade Hari Om to withdraw his resignation.Party leaders in Delhi have been informed that when Hari Om was in active service in the university he carried on functioning as BJP vicepresident and spokesman and his plea that he had resigned because he had to fulfill his academic commitment was untenable.
Party sources said that two senior BJP leaders,Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta,a former Minister of state for Defence,and Dr Nirmal Singh,a former BJP President,were trying to motivate Hari Om to return to the partyfold.
A senior BJP leader today also denied media reports that Prof Hari Om had been motivated by vicechancellor of Jammu University,Prof. Amitabh Mattoo,under whom he had worked before his recent retirement as professor in the Department of History,to quit the BJP so that he could be selected for a two-year contract for the prestigious Maharaja Gulab Singh chair,set up in the university.”
Even Dr Nirmal Singh refuted the news item in which it was alleged that he had mediated between the vicechancellor and Hari Om,for securing the latter’s resignation from the BJP.Dr Singh said “it is a humbug.I have been nowhere in the picture.Hari Om is a genuine claimant for the chair and his name is already with the selection committee.”
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