BJP faces dissension on six assembly seats in Indore

BJP has been facing open revolt from a section of the party leaders on six of the nine seats in Indore district in Madhya Pradesh, where the assembly poll is scheduled to take place in November/December this year.

According to the reports, several party leaders from Indore have written to the central and state leadership of the BJP expressing their serious displeasure over selection of candidates on six assembly seats in the district.

Reports said that these leaders also staged a demonstration in front of the district BJP office and took out processions to register their protest against the official candidates. Sources said that the revolt was quite vocal on Rau, Depalpur and Mhow assembly seats.

Sources in the BJP said that the problems in the district existed owing to a factional fight between the supporters of senior BJP leaders Sumitra Mahajan and Kailash Vijayvargiya.

Sources said that Vijayvargiya wanted his loyalist Suraj Kairo to be fielded from the Sonekachh assembly seat but some other candidate, who hailed from chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan and Sumitra Mahajan, got the party nomination from there. As a result, the supporters of Kailash Vijayvargiya were now opposing the official nominee.

Similar dissension was being witnessed on many other seats in the district as well putting the central and state BJP leadership in a fix. Sources said that the senior leaders were now trying to placate the disgruntled leaders and asking them to support the official candidates.

BJP had faced similar problems in the Gwalior region also where several loyalists of union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, who had crossed to the BJP two years back from the Congress along with 21 MLAs, revolted against Scindia after being denied nominations and switched loyalty to Congress which had promised them party nominations in the assembly poll.