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| Expelled BJP MLAs not invited to campaign in Punjab assembly poll | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 23: The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) high command has not invited those BJP leaders from Jammu, who have been expelled from the party on charge of having defied the party whip during the legislative council election in April last, to campaign for the party candidates in the neighbouring state of Punjab where the Assembly election is being held.
Instead half a dozen BJP leaders, including some MLAs, who are loyal to the party President Shamsher Singh Manhas, would be campaigning for the party candidates in Punjab.
Already senior BJP leader, Dr Nirmal Singh, has left for Punjab for campaigning. Party sources said that besides the BJP leaders groups of party workers in Jammu were being sent to Punjab for helping the BJP candidates in mobilizing voters support.
As far as the Congress is concerned those party leaders who have friends and relations in Punjab were being sent for campaigning in favour of the party candidates. Congress workers irrespective of their loyalty to either of the camp headed by the PCC chief, Saif-ud-Din Soz, or the faction led by the Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, from the Jammu region were being sent to Punjab for poll campaign. From the National Conference which shares power with the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir neither any party leader nor any major group of workers, except for Omar Abdullah and Farooq Abdullah may be assisting the Congress in its pre-poll campaign in Punjab and UP.
It is yet to be seen whether Farooq Abdullah will campaign for the Congress in Punjab because of his friendly relations with the Akali Dal supremo and Chief Minister of Punjab Prakash Singh Badal. For a number of years when Farooq Abdullah had severed his relations with the congress functionaries in New Delhi, including Indira Gandhi, he was seen in the company of Prakash Singh Badal and other opposition leaders. For Farooq Abdullah here would be no problem if he is invited by the
Congress high command to campaign in favour of the party in Uttar Pradesh. |
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