8 Panipat BJP leaders expelled for six years with immediate effect

The BJP expelled eight party leaders for six years with immediate effect for contesting MC elections against the party’s councillors’ candidates in the upcoming MC polls.

Meanwhile, with the entry of the ruling party's big-wigs, including Union Minister and former Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, for campaigning in support of BJP’s mayoral candidate Komal Saini and candidates for councillors’ post the MC election will become more interesting in the coming days.

The voting for Panipat MC will take place on March 9.

Dushyant Bhatt, district president said although the election was going good and the atmosphere was one sided in favour of BJP candidates, the party was in no mood to take any chance and that’s why a list of senior leaders as per the ward’s demand was sent to the BJP’s state body for the campaigning in Panipat.

“We have also demanded that 26 MLAs in Panipat for all 26 wards be deputed in the city for campaigning,” Bhatt said.

BJP’s mayoral candidate Komal Saini on Tuesday addressed nukkad meetings, public meetings and ‘chai pe charcha’, door-to-door campaigning in several wards with the councillors’ candidates.

Komal Saini while addressing the gathering in Ward 25, 22, 1, 18, Sector 29, Sector 4, near Devi temple, Ward 7, and 2 along with the ward candidates concerned appealed the voters to vote for the BJP in the city for the third time. She said it was the need of the hour to bring the BJP government in the city for the overall development of the city.

She further said Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Centre was working for the all-around development of the country and under the leadership of Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini the state government was also working for the development of the state. Now, to bring fast development in the city it was necessary to bring the BJP government in the city, she said.

She appealed to the voters to vote for her and vote for the BJP’s candidates from their wards concerned.

BJP’s district President Dushyant Bhatt in his orders said that the leaders -- former councillor and executive committee members Satish Saini, Shakuntla Garg, Anjali Sharma, Suman Chhabra, Attar Singh Rawal, executive committee member Ashok Chhabra, Ramakant Giri of Purvanchal Cell and a booth president Dinesh Sharma -- have been expelled from the party for six years for contesting elections against the BJP’s candidates in their wards concerned.

Notably, the BJP has dropped the tickets of 18 former municipal councillors this time and fielded new faces in the elections.

Former BJP councillor Anjali Sharma is contesting the election from Ward 4 while the Congress is also supporting her by not fielding its candidate from Ward 4. Similarly, Shakuntla Garg is contesting the election from Ward 15 Independently while Satish Saini fielded his wife Santosh Saini from Ward 11. Suman Chhabra is contesting the election from Ward 17 and former BJP councillor Attar Singh Rawal fielded his daughter-in-law Priyanka Rawal from Ward 16 against the ruling party’s candidates.