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| Goof-up: For Gadkari Ravinder Raina still an MLA | | Union Minister admits 'improper establishment of toll plazas' | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 4: The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) central leadership hardly misses an opportunity to take potshots at its opponents as and when they make any peculiar statement but finding one of its senior most leaders in the same league would be a major source of embarrassment for the party.
In a major goof-up by senior BJP leader and Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, in a letter, dated October 23, 2019, addressed to BJP's J&K unit president Ravinder Raina, has described the latter as MLA, Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly, forgetting that the then Legislative Assembly was dissolved by the Governor of erstwhile J&K Satya Pal Malik almost a year back on November 21, 2018.
It is in place to mention here that the Governor's rule was imposed in erstwhile J&K state initially on June 20, 2018 and the State Assembly was kept in suspended animation after the state plunged into a political crisis when the Mehbooba Mufti-led coalition government was reduced to minority following withdrawal of support by the 25-member BJP in the state.
Subsequently, the President's rule was imposed in December 2018 which was again extended for six more months in July 2019 and remained in effect till the state was reorganized on August 5 into two Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh. In between, the then Governor of J&K dissolved the State Legislative Assembly on November 21, 2018 ending any possibility of government formation, shortly after rival political combines said they would stake their claims to power.
The letter sent by Gadkari to Ravinder Raina was in response to latter's communiqué, dated October 12, 2019, with regard to setting up of Toll Plazas and the problems being faced by the general public of Jammu due to their establishment.
Not only that the J&K BJP president Raina, a former MLA, was mentioned as a legislator in the letter duly signed by the senior Union Minister but its contents also made an admission to the issue of 'improper establishment of toll plazas' in Jammu as was alleged by the commoners as well as the political leaders cutting across party lines of Jammu region.
If the central minister himself admitting in the letter that "problems being faced by public of Jammu due to improper establishment of toll plazas" then the chorus on the legality of toll plazas being raised by the opposition parties and general public of Jammu stand vindicated. |
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