The efforts of the national leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party to present a united face to win the upcoming Delhi assembly polls were watered down by warring senior leaders of the city within a week.
On the strict directions of central leadership, the leaders of all the factions of the party had showed a united face to launch protest against sky-rocketing onion prices last Wednesday but only one lobby was active on Tuesday to protest against the roll out of the Food Security Scheme in the city.
‘I had some other engagements so could not attend the protest organised by party,’ said a senior leader of the Delhi BJP.
Another senior leader of the party said he was not informed on time so could not reach the protest site. But according to sources, the leaders of the other groups were tactically kept
away from the protest to ensure credit for present city BJP chief Vijay Goel
who is being criticised among party cadres for being ‘autocratic’.
‘Onion is going out of the reach of common man but government is doing nothing,’ Goel said while addressing a gathering outside Talkatora stadium.
The leaders present at the gathering were Pravesh Verma, Shikha Rai, Jagdish Mukhi, Ramesh Bidhuri, and Jai Prakash — all are supporters of Goel except his predecessor Vijender Gupta. According to sources, Gupta has finally accepted the supremacy of Goel.
Goel’s chief competitor for the post of chief minister in Delhi, Harshvardhan who hit the street with Goel for the first time on the onion issue last Wednesday was absent from Tuesday’s protest and so were former mayor of Delhi Aarti Mehra, V K Malhotra, Vijay Jolly and several councillors and leaders of the party who are considered against
Goel’s lobby.
On the strict directions of central leadership, the leaders of all the factions of the party had showed a united face to launch protest against sky-rocketing onion prices last Wednesday but only one lobby was active on Tuesday to protest against the roll out of the Food Security Scheme in the city.
‘I had some other engagements so could not attend the protest organised by party,’ said a senior leader of the Delhi BJP.
Another senior leader of the party said he was not informed on time so could not reach the protest site. But according to sources, the leaders of the other groups were tactically kept
away from the protest to ensure credit for present city BJP chief Vijay Goel
who is being criticised among party cadres for being ‘autocratic’.
‘Onion is going out of the reach of common man but government is doing nothing,’ Goel said while addressing a gathering outside Talkatora stadium.
The leaders present at the gathering were Pravesh Verma, Shikha Rai, Jagdish Mukhi, Ramesh Bidhuri, and Jai Prakash — all are supporters of Goel except his predecessor Vijender Gupta. According to sources, Gupta has finally accepted the supremacy of Goel.
Goel’s chief competitor for the post of chief minister in Delhi, Harshvardhan who hit the street with Goel for the first time on the onion issue last Wednesday was absent from Tuesday’s protest and so were former mayor of Delhi Aarti Mehra, V K Malhotra, Vijay Jolly and several councillors and leaders of the party who are considered against
Goel’s lobby.