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| Major political crisis brewing in UP | | Angry, ambitious BJP cadres for greener pastures | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI, AUG. 1: India's all-important State of Uttar Pradesh (UP) is going to witness stormy political events in the coming weeks and months. As people in politics cannot always have just limited aspirations and ambitions, crossing of floor is not ruled out.
And when angry and ambitious people, particularly legislators, are involved in the game of switching their loyalties, the situation is bound to be somewhat alarming. In UP, the BJP is facing a major political crisis with several of its legislators seeking nominations by its political rivals, Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), for the coming Assembly polls.
The exodus appears to be more embarrassing for the party as a large number of leaders from UP occupy top slots in the BJP, including party president, Rajnath Singh. BJP's national vice-president, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who hails from Uttar Pradesh, admits that the reports are true but maintains: "It is not going to affect us. There are a number of BSP leaders seeking the BJP ticket for Assembly elections too".
UP Assembly polls are due next year. The BSP, one of the strong players in UP, has already announced its list of over 200 candidates for the 403-member Assembly. Significantly, the names of about a dozen sitting BJP legislators have already appeared in the first list of the BSP. Nearly 24 more are in touch with the BSP and the Samajwadi Party leadership, lobbying for the Assembly ticket.
The UP unit of the BJP has already initiated action against seven of the 12 leaders whose names have appeared in the BSP list of candidates. This, significantly, does not seem to have been a deterrent. Two former Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh--BJP chief, Rajnath Singh, and party in-charge of UP, Kalyan Singh--are now personally monitoring the situation in the State. |
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