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| Jitendra Singh's induction in BJP may upset many in party | | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 16: That Dr Jitendra Singh would join the BJP was a foregone conclusion. It was just a question of timing. His political essays written during the past two years had indicated his tilt towards the BJP. It was in 2008 that he came close to some top-ranking central BJP leaders. Arun Jaitley was one of them. What had brought Jitendra Singh close to the BJP was the role he played during the Amarnath land row. So his joining the BJP is natural corollary. He has joined the party and the state BJP president has appointed him as the chief spokesperson of the party. It all happened yesterday, when the executive committee of the party started two-day-long meeting in Jammu. Everyone has reportedly welcomed Dr Jitendra Singh's induction and expressed the hope that his entry would strengthen the BJP in the state. However, reliable sources in the party think otherwise. According to them, a couple of senior BJP leaders, including former state BJP presidents , are not feeling pleased with the party high command. "Some leaders are particularly feeling quite upset because they see in Jitendra Singh a potential threat to their political career," the sources have revealed.
The sources pointed out that the "relations between a senior leader of the party and Jitendra Singh are not very cordial" and added that Jitendra Singh would have contested the last assembly election from the Gandhi Nagar Constituency, had some leaders not successfully lobbied for the ticket for Dr Nirmal Singh in the same constituency." Jitendra Singh had thought of resigning from service at that time to contest the election, but things didn't materialize. The BJP national president Rajnath Singh and RSS leader Indresh Kumar, according to sources, had swung solidly behind Nirmal Singh, thus upsetting Jitendra Singh's apple-cart.
It needs to be noted that Nirmal Singh could not make it to the assembly because Raman Bhalla of the Congress defeated him. This was Nirmal Singh's third consecutive defeat. Earlier, he had suffered defeats during the last two parliamentary elections at the hands of Choudhary Talib Hussain of the NC and Madan Lal Sharma of the Congress.
Sources further reveal that "it was again Nirmal Singh who succeeded in getting the party mandate for the Lok Sabha election from the Udhampur-Doda parliamentary constituency, despite the fact that certain top leaders at the national level, including Arun Jailtey, wanted Jitendra Singh to field in the said constituency."
One of the reasons that had gone against Jitendra Singh was the view in the local BJP that he, like the former convenor of the Amarnath Yatra Sangharash Samiti Lela Karan Sharma, was "an outsider." There were newspaper reports those days to the effect that the supporters of the party leader had organized a couple of demonstrations to prevent the party high command from giving mandate to "outsiders" Leela Karan Sharma and Jitendra Singh. Leela Karan succeeded in getting the mandate to contest the Lok Sabha election from the Jammu-Poonch constituency, but Jitendra Singh couldn't. However, Madan Lal Sharma of the Congress party trounced Leela Karan Sharma and won the election by a huge margin.
Now that Jitendra Singh has formally joined the party after weighing all the pros and cons and with the "full backing of certain central BJP" things have completely changed. "It is this induction that has made certain leaders, anxious to contest the next Lok
Sabha election or the next assembly election, feel jittery," the sources reveal and further add that there are a few others in the party who feel threatened by the induction of Jitendra Singh in the party." Sources also disclose that even "seniormost leaders of the party at local level are not very happy over this development."
Jitendra Singh would have to work hard to create for himself a place in the party that is
faction-ridden and vertically divided into at least four groups.
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