Now, senior BJP leader and trade union leader opens front against party’s Meerut candidate

  • | Sunday | 24th March, 2019

Hum aisa umeedwaar nahi chahte jo kumbhkaran ki neend soye ho” (We will not vote for Rajendra Agrawal. We do not want a candidate who sleeps like Kumbhkaran).”But such protests are not confined to Meerut constituency. One of them in Sisauli village read, “We welcome BJP in 2019, but will press NOTA if Rajendra Agrawal is given ticket.”Another banner in Sant Vihar Rajnagar-Hari Nagar area of Meerut read, “Rajendra Agrawal ko vote nahi denge. Vineet Sharda is a dedicated party worker. A video of people protesting against Union minister Mahesh Sharma had gone viral on social media.

Strap: Vineet Sharda Was In News For Claiming That Lord Hanuman Was From Vaish CommunityMeerut: Voices of dissent in BJP’s Meerut unit grew louder on Saturday as a senior BJP leader called a press conference and slammed the party’s central leadership for giving ticket to sitting MP Rajendra Agrawal. Vineet Sharda, a senior leader and party’s UP convenor for Vyapar Prakoshth, was also in the race for a ticket and was apparently disappointed when he didn’t get one.Sharda openly criticized central leadership’s decision to field Agrawal for the third time “leaving virtually no scope for other party workers who have worked hard for decades.”Sharda was in the news recently when he had claimed that Lord Hanuman was “not a Dalit but from Vaish community.”Speaking to TOI, the disgruntled leader said, “I have been serving BJP for the last 33 years. I have fought injustices met out by SP-BSP regime and incurred the wrath of state machinery while struggling to save the BJP ideology and also to save interest of traders. This is what I have got in return. In 2009 as well as in 2014, I had demanded Lok Sabha ticket. This time again a person was selected who is already facing protest from all quarters.”Agrawal is among several incumbent MPs in UP who are facing protest against their candidature.The MP however downplayed the development.“This is a momentary reaction and we all must respect the decision of party high command. Vineet Sharda is a dedicated party worker. I will also talk to him. He will be there with me when we go to file nomination papers,” the Meerut MP said.Just a day after BJP declared its first list and Agrawal’s name was announced as party candidate from Meerut-Hapur seat, pockets of resistance surfaced against the incumbent legislator. Several banners cropped up against his nomination. One of them in Sisauli village read, “We welcome BJP in 2019, but will press NOTA if Rajendra Agrawal is given ticket.”Another banner in Sant Vihar Rajnagar-Hari Nagar area of Meerut read, “Rajendra Agrawal ko vote nahi denge. Hum aisa umeedwaar nahi chahte jo kumbhkaran ki neend soye ho” (We will not vote for Rajendra Agrawal. We do not want a candidate who sleeps like Kumbhkaran).”But such protests are not confined to Meerut constituency. A video of people protesting against Union minister Mahesh Sharma had gone viral on social media.

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