BHUBANESWAR: The BJP fielded Sanat Gartia from Bijepur assembly seat, where leader minister Naveen Patnaik has entered the fray, after senior chief Subash Chauhan declined party be offering to contest from there.
Gartia, who had abandoned BJP in 2008, had returned to the party closing year forward of by-election in Bijepur necessitated by means of then MLA Subal Sahu’s loss of life. Sanat is nephew of Nityanand Gartia who was Bijepur MLA from 1977-1980 (Janata Dal).
Earlier, Chauhan expressed anguish over denial of party price ticket to him from Bargarh LS seat where he unsuccessfully contested in 2014 but was defeated by means of a narrow margin of best 11,178 votes from BJD’s Pravas Singh. Chauhan had polled the absolute best (three.72 lakh) votes by means of any BJP candidate in Odisha in 2014. Bijepur is part of Bargarh parliament constituency.
His supporters had resorted to protest after BJP fielded party’s national secretary Suresh Pujari, who had misplaced the closing LS election from Sambalpur, from Bargarh this time. Apparently to pacify Chauhan’s anger, the BJP closing week appointed him vice-president of the state unit and requested him to contest from Bijepur assembly seat.
Venting his ire on a Facebook submit on Monday, Chauhan wrote “Since leader minister Naveen Patnaik has been preventing from Bijepur, I instructed the party that robust chief Dharmendra Pradhan (Union minister) should contest from the seat. The similar was however grew to become down.”
“Whatever (denial of party price ticket to him from Bargarh) was accomplished is an insult to the OBC community of western Odisha. My supporters who protested the decision have been threatened by means of some senior leaders of the party,” Chauhan wrote.
Chauhan is a former state president of Hindu Jagaran Manch and former national convener of Bajrang Dal (2010 to 2012).
The Congress has fielded its former minister Ripunath Seth from Bijepur from where he was elected MLA in 1995.
Gartia, who had abandoned BJP in 2008, had returned to the party closing year forward of by-election in Bijepur necessitated by means of then MLA Subal Sahu’s loss of life. Sanat is nephew of Nityanand Gartia who was Bijepur MLA from 1977-1980 (Janata Dal).
Earlier, Chauhan expressed anguish over denial of party price ticket to him from Bargarh LS seat where he unsuccessfully contested in 2014 but was defeated by means of a narrow margin of best 11,178 votes from BJD’s Pravas Singh. Chauhan had polled the absolute best (three.72 lakh) votes by means of any BJP candidate in Odisha in 2014. Bijepur is part of Bargarh parliament constituency.
His supporters had resorted to protest after BJP fielded party’s national secretary Suresh Pujari, who had misplaced the closing LS election from Sambalpur, from Bargarh this time. Apparently to pacify Chauhan’s anger, the BJP closing week appointed him vice-president of the state unit and requested him to contest from Bijepur assembly seat.
Venting his ire on a Facebook submit on Monday, Chauhan wrote “Since leader minister Naveen Patnaik has been preventing from Bijepur, I instructed the party that robust chief Dharmendra Pradhan (Union minister) should contest from the seat. The similar was however grew to become down.”
“Whatever (denial of party price ticket to him from Bargarh) was accomplished is an insult to the OBC community of western Odisha. My supporters who protested the decision have been threatened by means of some senior leaders of the party,” Chauhan wrote.
Chauhan is a former state president of Hindu Jagaran Manch and former national convener of Bajrang Dal (2010 to 2012).
The Congress has fielded its former minister Ripunath Seth from Bijepur from where he was elected MLA in 1995.
BJP fields Sanat Gartia against Naveen Patnaik in Bijepur
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