Resentment among BJP workers to fore in Fatehpur

Our Correspondent

Nurpur, October 17

The BJP is yet to declare its candidates’ list officially, but resentment among workers and party unit of the Fatehpur Assembly constituency against the proposed party candidate has come to the fore.

The party workers and booth-level BJP activists of the Fatehpur mandal today held a meeting at Nanooh and opposed the decision of the party leadership to declare Kirpal Parmar as the party candidate from Fatehpur.

Chain Singh, mandal president, after holding a party workers’ meeting told the media that the mandal would not accept any outsider to contest elections in Fatehpur and if the party high command did not change its decision, the mandal would field Baldev Thakur as an Independent candidate.

He said the mandal would wait for the high command’s decision till October 20 and file nomination of Baldev Thakur on October 21. Thakur said he would take further step as per the decision of the party workers and added he would file his nomination on October 21 as an Independent candidate if the party ticket was denied to him.