NCP’s support to win trust vote irks Maha BJP leaders
17 Nov 2014 4:12 AM IST
Ever since Fadnavis won the confidence motion in the assembly by a ‘voice vote’ on 12 November a rift within the party leaders has emerged. The dissents are accusing the central leadership of having flouted moral values by taking support from NCP chief Sharad Pawar.
With a section of BJP leaders now openly venting out anger against their party allegedly taking support from NCP to gain power, some of them are even planning to meet party president Amit Shah.
Party insiders claimed that some of the state BJP leaders even tried to meet Shah but their efforts turned futile. ‘With no other option we have written letters to him mentioning that this (taking NCP’s direct or indirect support) will prove to be disastrous for the party in future,’ he said.
‘We have fought against the NCP and the Congress for several years and now it is unfortunate that we have to save our seat with Pawar’s blessings. This unacceptable to us,’ he added.
Already some prominent BJP leaders from Ahmednagar district staged ‘Atma-klesh’ (penance) agitation to express their strong sentiments over ‘alliance with corrupt NCP’.
Speaking to the Millennium Post, Heramb Auti, a senior BJP leader, said, ‘It is sad that BJP went in to some kind of understanding with the NCP. They always opposed us and now we are taking their support despite emerging as a single largest party in Maharashtra.’
Corroborating the same another BJP leader Sunil Mutha said, ‘We have worked so hard during the election and people voted us because we have the raised the corruption of previous Maharashtra government and its allies including NCP. Now we are going with the NCP. This will send a wrong impression to our voters.’ ‘It would have been better that Shiv Sena-BJP could stand with each other in this crisis. Unfortunately it didn’t happen,’ he added.
Earlier, there was uproar during the trust-vote process on November 12 after leaders of Congress and the Shiv Sena have protested against the Speaker, Haribhau Bagde’s decision not to hold a division vote, in which legislators press buttons on a voting machine to record their votes, which are then counted.
With a section of BJP leaders now openly venting out anger against their party allegedly taking support from NCP to gain power, some of them are even planning to meet party president Amit Shah.
Party insiders claimed that some of the state BJP leaders even tried to meet Shah but their efforts turned futile. ‘With no other option we have written letters to him mentioning that this (taking NCP’s direct or indirect support) will prove to be disastrous for the party in future,’ he said.
‘We have fought against the NCP and the Congress for several years and now it is unfortunate that we have to save our seat with Pawar’s blessings. This unacceptable to us,’ he added.
Already some prominent BJP leaders from Ahmednagar district staged ‘Atma-klesh’ (penance) agitation to express their strong sentiments over ‘alliance with corrupt NCP’.
Speaking to the Millennium Post, Heramb Auti, a senior BJP leader, said, ‘It is sad that BJP went in to some kind of understanding with the NCP. They always opposed us and now we are taking their support despite emerging as a single largest party in Maharashtra.’
Corroborating the same another BJP leader Sunil Mutha said, ‘We have worked so hard during the election and people voted us because we have the raised the corruption of previous Maharashtra government and its allies including NCP. Now we are going with the NCP. This will send a wrong impression to our voters.’ ‘It would have been better that Shiv Sena-BJP could stand with each other in this crisis. Unfortunately it didn’t happen,’ he added.
Earlier, there was uproar during the trust-vote process on November 12 after leaders of Congress and the Shiv Sena have protested against the Speaker, Haribhau Bagde’s decision not to hold a division vote, in which legislators press buttons on a voting machine to record their votes, which are then counted.
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