BJP leaders stake claim for Bathinda urban assembly seat

Sukhmeet Bhasin

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Tribune News Service

Bathinda, January 25

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders have started staking a claim for contesting the Bathinda urban seat in the upcoming 2017 Vidhan Sabha election.

The party has intensified its activities in the city as it is a Hindu majority seat. It has presumed that it has a better chance of winning the seat.

There is a major section of party leaders in the city which feels that the party should discontinue the alliance and fight the election alone in the state.

It is generally said that BJP leaders feel ignored as they are not involved in the decision-making process.

Earlier, deputy mayor Gurinderpal Kaur Mangat had even staged a protest against the mayor by removing her name plate from her office.

She has also accused the mayor of not consulting her on various issues.

BJP councillors have openly claimed that SAD mayor and leaders are not allowing development works in their wards.

During the Municipal Corporation election, the SAD had also fielded many independent candidates against BJP candidates in many wards.

Bathinda urban BJP president Mohit Gupta said they were surely staking the claim for contesting Bathinda urban seat as the BJP had a strong hold in the city.

He said a large section of workers feel that the BJP should contest this seat. “From time to time, we have informed our party high command about the feelings of party workers regarding this,” he said.

When asked about the candidate, Mohit Gupta said that it was for the party high command to decide before the election.

Sources in the party high command claimed that the party was seeing Mohit Gupta as front-runner for the candidate from the city.