New Delhi: The BJP, hoping to come to power on its own in Haryana, is facing a serious discontent among the loyal party leaders over the distribution of Assembly election tickets. The BJP was a fringe force in the state till the Narendra Modi wave hit the state during the recent Lok Sabha elections.
Even as the party has declared its candidates for all the 90 Assembly seats in the state, turncoats seem to have found favour with the saffron party in the state. More than 15-20 candidates fielded by the party for the Haryana assembly polls are either deserters from the Congress or the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD).
Former ally and Haryana Janahit Congress (HJC) chief Kuldeep Bishnoi said that a number of those who had been overlooked for tickets in the BJP have contacted him for switching over.
Gurgaon BJP president Tejpal Tanwar speaking to a newspaper said, "There is a lot of discontent among party workers and such aspirants who had seriously worked for the party, in the end all should work for the party. We are trying to reason with the disaffected lot."
Given the caste-break up of the candidatures, the BJP has tried to strike a fair balance between the Jat and non-Jat candidates: broadly while close to 16 Jats have got tickets, Baniya and the Punjabi communities follow suit.
The BJP's decision to field External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's younger sister Vandana Sharma in the Assembly election has upset at least half a dozen local BJP leaders who were eyeing the same seat.
Some Brahmin leaders expressed unhappiness with the BJP's decision to overlook the community for the Badshahpur and Gurgaon seats.
There is a lot of discontent over new entrants into the BJP like Rao Inderjit Singh getting a lot of prominence.
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