Lovely almost concedes Vardhan has revived BJP
31 Oct 2013 4:30 AM IST
Though unwittingly, Delhi urban minister Arvinder Singh Lovely has conceded that within a week of his appointment as party’s chief ministerial candidate, Harsha Vardhan has managed to revive Bharatiya Janata Party’s fortunes.
Addressing media on Tuesday Lovely said, ‘Dr Harsha Vardhan would meet the same fate in elections which his party leader BC Khanduri met in Uttarakhand.’
Lovely seems to have completely forgotten that Khanduri was made Uttarakhand chief minister just days ahead of the assembly polls in 2012. When the former army general was made the chief minister, the BJP appeared to be facing a downslide because of allegations of corruption against his predecessor Ramesh Pokhriyal. At a time when political experts were expecting BJP to perform pathetically, under 78-year-old Khanduri’s leadership, the BJP got 31 seats, just five short of its tally in the last elections, while the Congress emerged as the largest party with 32 seats in the 70-member assembly.
Experts say that if he had managed to win from his own constituency Kotdwar, the party’s tally would have risen to 32 and BJP would have formed the government.
Meanwhile, the Congress is working on a strategy to defeat Vardhan by pitching BJP turncoat VK Monga as party candidate from Krishna Nagar.
Addressing media on Tuesday Lovely said, ‘Dr Harsha Vardhan would meet the same fate in elections which his party leader BC Khanduri met in Uttarakhand.’
Lovely seems to have completely forgotten that Khanduri was made Uttarakhand chief minister just days ahead of the assembly polls in 2012. When the former army general was made the chief minister, the BJP appeared to be facing a downslide because of allegations of corruption against his predecessor Ramesh Pokhriyal. At a time when political experts were expecting BJP to perform pathetically, under 78-year-old Khanduri’s leadership, the BJP got 31 seats, just five short of its tally in the last elections, while the Congress emerged as the largest party with 32 seats in the 70-member assembly.
Experts say that if he had managed to win from his own constituency Kotdwar, the party’s tally would have risen to 32 and BJP would have formed the government.
Meanwhile, the Congress is working on a strategy to defeat Vardhan by pitching BJP turncoat VK Monga as party candidate from Krishna Nagar.
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