Bhopal

Ready to contest polls: BJP vice-president Jha

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BJP’s national vice-president Prabhat Jha is willing to contest elections, no matter whether it is parliamentary or Assembly elections.m However, he stated that final decision has to be taken by the party. Jha was talking to mediapersons here on Saturday, after having arrived here.

He told that he is ready to take on any challenge. “If party asks me to contest parliamentary polls or assembly, he would contest without any reservations,” he added.

To a query, Jha stated that the decision whether he would contest election against any particular leader or from any particular constituency.

Regarding forming his party’s Government for the third term in Madhya Pradesh, Jha said that the party leaders need to exert similar efforts Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is making in this direction. Elections can not be won only by forming few committees to take on the polls.

About speculations that Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia might be handed over reins of Congress party in the State before elections, Jha claimed that Scindia never struggle on the roads, thus is not connected with the field.

To a query, he told that Congress and factionalism are synonyms to each other.

If there is no factionalism, there is no Congress party. He stated that all the senior leaders including Scindia, Kamal Nath and Digvijay Singh are involved in the factionalism.