HOSHIARPUR: After making him the celebration’s most outstanding Dalit face in Punjab, BJP dropped Union minister of state Vijay Sampla and replaced him with sitting Phagwara MLA Som Parkash as Hoshiarpur candidate. Phagwara is part of Hoshiarpur parliamentary constituency.
Sampla had meteoric upward thrust as he contested his first ever election in 2014 and was once elevated a minister right away. Later, he was once also appointed state BJP president. If his upward thrust at the political scene was once quick, the fall no less than for now seems even sooner.
There was once no secret in regards to the bitterness between Sampla and Parkash and previous had strongly adversarial latter’s candidature from Phagwara within the 2017 meeting election.
Parkash, a former IAS officer, had contested from Hoshiarpur in 2009, but he lost to Santosh Chaudhary by way of thin margin. He then were given price tag from Phagwara within the 2012 meeting election displacing then sitting MLA and minister Chaudhary Swarna Ram and turned into MLA. To his credit score he controlled to win the seat again in 2017 even as it was once sturdy anti-SAD-BJP wave in Punjab. BJP had gained total three seats in 2017, and Phagwara was once the one seat in Doaba area celebration could retain.
Even as Sampla had tried to fix the relation in the previous couple of weeks, but Parkash did not even attend the important occasions held by way of the junior Union minister.
Sampla had played a very powerful position in getting Adampur home airport, were given resumption of work for construction of the nationwide freeway via Phagwara. However, it's learnt that interior surveys of the celebration did not paint an encouraging image.
MLAs face-to-face
In Hoshiarpur each the Congress and BJP have fielded sitting MLAs. Congress candidate Raj Kumar, MLA from Chabbewal, submitted his nomination on Tuesday. Now, it's sure that one byelection could be held after parliamentary elections.
Santosh now not happy
Before Congress nominee Raj Kumar filed nomination papers, Congress Punjab affairs in rate Asha Kumari known as on former MP Santosh Chaudhary to steer her but she refused to attend Raj Kumar’s nomination submitting. However, Asha later said that she known as at the veteran chief as she had a really perfect private rapport together with her and it was once more of a non-public discuss with.
Sampla tweets
After BJP dropped him Sampla expressed anguish via his professional twitter handle. First he tweeted in Hindi, announcing, “Very unhappy that BJP has killed a cow”. In the second tweet he questioned BJP top command asking what was once his fault. He wrote further, My fault is that: 1. I don’t face any allegation of corruption. 2. Nobody can level a finger at my personality. three. Got a passport place of work in constituency. Got (new) trains. Got roads built. If those are my faults then I shall tell my long term generations that they must now not dedicate such mistakes.
Sampla had meteoric upward thrust as he contested his first ever election in 2014 and was once elevated a minister right away. Later, he was once also appointed state BJP president. If his upward thrust at the political scene was once quick, the fall no less than for now seems even sooner.
There was once no secret in regards to the bitterness between Sampla and Parkash and previous had strongly adversarial latter’s candidature from Phagwara within the 2017 meeting election.
Parkash, a former IAS officer, had contested from Hoshiarpur in 2009, but he lost to Santosh Chaudhary by way of thin margin. He then were given price tag from Phagwara within the 2012 meeting election displacing then sitting MLA and minister Chaudhary Swarna Ram and turned into MLA. To his credit score he controlled to win the seat again in 2017 even as it was once sturdy anti-SAD-BJP wave in Punjab. BJP had gained total three seats in 2017, and Phagwara was once the one seat in Doaba area celebration could retain.
Even as Sampla had tried to fix the relation in the previous couple of weeks, but Parkash did not even attend the important occasions held by way of the junior Union minister.
Sampla had played a very powerful position in getting Adampur home airport, were given resumption of work for construction of the nationwide freeway via Phagwara. However, it's learnt that interior surveys of the celebration did not paint an encouraging image.
MLAs face-to-face
In Hoshiarpur each the Congress and BJP have fielded sitting MLAs. Congress candidate Raj Kumar, MLA from Chabbewal, submitted his nomination on Tuesday. Now, it's sure that one byelection could be held after parliamentary elections.
Santosh now not happy
Before Congress nominee Raj Kumar filed nomination papers, Congress Punjab affairs in rate Asha Kumari known as on former MP Santosh Chaudhary to steer her but she refused to attend Raj Kumar’s nomination submitting. However, Asha later said that she known as at the veteran chief as she had a really perfect private rapport together with her and it was once more of a non-public discuss with.
Sampla tweets
After BJP dropped him Sampla expressed anguish via his professional twitter handle. First he tweeted in Hindi, announcing, “Very unhappy that BJP has killed a cow”. In the second tweet he questioned BJP top command asking what was once his fault. He wrote further, My fault is that: 1. I don’t face any allegation of corruption. 2. Nobody can level a finger at my personality. three. Got a passport place of work in constituency. Got (new) trains. Got roads built. If those are my faults then I shall tell my long term generations that they must now not dedicate such mistakes.
Dropped by BJP, Union minister Vijay Sampla calls it ‘cow killing’
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