Murli Manohar Joshi adamant over Varanasi seat
- 5 years ago
A great Varanasi rift opened up within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday.
The second meeting of the party's central election committee saw veteran Murli Manohar Joshi locking horns with party president Rajnath Singh over the choice of its Lok Sabha hopeful from the holy city.
Former party president Joshi, who was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from Varanasi after losing his favourite Allahabad seat in the 2004 polls, is not kindly disposed to vacating his seat for prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
It boiled over on Saturday; pictures of the event showed sullen faces, and there was no Varanasi in the second list of 52 Lok Sabha candidates announced by the BJP.
If that wasn't enough, senior leader Sushma Swaraj followed up by expressing her anguish at some of the alliances the party has forged for Mission 272.
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The second meeting of the party's central election committee saw veteran Murli Manohar Joshi locking horns with party president Rajnath Singh over the choice of its Lok Sabha hopeful from the holy city.
Former party president Joshi, who was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from Varanasi after losing his favourite Allahabad seat in the 2004 polls, is not kindly disposed to vacating his seat for prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
It boiled over on Saturday; pictures of the event showed sullen faces, and there was no Varanasi in the second list of 52 Lok Sabha candidates announced by the BJP.
If that wasn't enough, senior leader Sushma Swaraj followed up by expressing her anguish at some of the alliances the party has forged for Mission 272.
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