BJP calls emergency meeting with top party leaders for ongoing dispute over candidate list
During the visit of Home Minister Amit Shah, a 'civil war' broke out between the BJP leaders and workers over the selection of candidates. The Hastings Electoral Office witnessed a massive protest by party workers in Kolkata on Monday (March 15).
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FollowOn Monday, Amit Shah was supposed to hold a meeting in Jhargram but due to some mechanical problems in his helicopter, he couldn’t attend the meeting personally but addressed virtually.
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Huge protests started outside the BJP office in Kolkata as the party announced its second list of candidates. Workers from at least three assembly constituencies staged protests from afternoon onwards in Hasting. BJP leaders Mukul Roy, Shiv Prakash, Arjun Singh and Sabyasachi Dutta had to face protests.
The state BJP leaders have to struggle to cope with such an unfavorable situation together. Even before the start of the election campaign, the Bengal BJP was in a state of disarray.
The list of 123 candidates has been published in the first four rounds of the state assembly elections. The remaining 171 seats are remaining. The district organizing office was vandalized at Chunchura in Hooghly. It is also alleged that the president of one of the constituencies was severely beaten. According to party sources, a report has already been sought from the Bengal leadership on the matter.
In this situation, Amit Shah went to Guwahati and returned to Kolkata. The state BJP leaders met Shah late at night on Monday. Bengal leaders including Dilip Ghosh joined the meeting. The conversation continued till dawn. There was also a round of talks on Tuesday morning to calm the situation.
BJP has announced the names of party candidates in 63 out of 75 constituencies for the third and fourth rounds of elections on Sunday. Since then, the anger of BJP workers in Singur and Chunchura has become virtually uncontrollable. There is a lot of speculation about the names of MPs in the next list of candidates. The anger of BJP workers was also seen in Kolkata. Activists and supporters from several districts, including Howrah and South 24 Parganas, staged protests at the party's election office in Hastings.
BJP leaders were forced to hold a meeting at a five-star hotel in Rajarhat over dissatisfaction with the list of candidates. JP Nadda also joined the meeting. He has multiple programs in Bankura on Tuesday. Concerned over the incident, Amit Shah and JP Nadda listened to the party leaders. The Home Minister has even set a time to resolve the issue at a high-level meeting.
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