Thursday, August 8, 2013

BJP SCHISM COMES TO FORE IN BALANGIR Friday, 09 August 2013 | PNS | BALANGIR | in Bhubaneswar

BJP SCHISM COMES TO FORE IN BALANGIR
Friday, 09 August 2013 | PNS | BALANGIR | in Bhubaneswar
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The simmering discontentment among the BJP workers and factionalism in the BJP district unit have come to the fore after the new BJP State president and Patnagarh MLA KV Singh Deo announced his new team to take on the BJD.
Just two months ago, factionalism in Balangir unit of BJP surfaced with one group led by current president Omprakash Joshi and the other by Prabhas Panigrahi, Raju Nayak and Ajaya Das held separate rallies here on June 16 last during the BJP’s nationwide Jail Bharo agitation.
As if that was not enough, the BJP which is described as “party with discipline and difference”, as many as many as 12 elected mandal presidents of Balangir district in a petition to the party’s national president Rajnath Singh drew his attention to the unconstitutional organisational set-up and requested him to intervene in the matter.
“After the completion of the three-tier panchayat polls, we were fully involved in party membership drive for 2012 and 2014.  We achieved an 80 per cent growth in membership,” they told Singh.
After completion of general membership drive, the drive for active members was taken under the active guidance of district returning officers, Mandal returning officer and their deputies. Polls were conducted to elect panchayat president in rural area and president in urban areas. By October 16, 2012, the elections of 12 mandals were completed. However, after the nomination of Singh Deo as State unit chief, the new district president was nominated without consulting grassroots leaders or mandal presidents, they complained, adding that the new district president immediately changed the mandal presidents and nominated his choice candidates without consulting anybody.“It is an internal matter of the party and the party will look into it” said BJP state president KV Singhdeo, when asked.


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