Kin denied ticket, Jamnagar deputy mayor joins AAP

Rajkot: BJP leader and Jamnagar’s deputy mayor Karsan Karmur resigned from the party and joined AAP on Friday.
Karmur claimed he was the only councillor, whose relatives were not chosen to the contest. “When we were told that according to the new criteria, we will not get tickets, it was decided to chose our relatives. All other councillors who suggested names of their relatives got ticket and I was the only one ignored.”
A group of workers from ward 10 also created ruckus a the BJP office after mayor Hasmukh Jethva’s son Parth was given ticket.Four other senior workers- Hansa Trivedi, Usha Tankaraiya, her son Aashish and Jyoti Bharwadia also resigned from the party.
Karmur was BJP councillor since 1995 and chairman of the standing committee twice. Vimal Kagathra, city BJP president said, “The resentment will not affect the party’s performance at all.”
In Jamnagar municipal corporation BJP got 38 seats out of 64 in 2015.
In Bhavnagar, there was severe anger over selection of Geeta Mer for ward five as she had resigned from the Congress just a day before the candidatures were announced.