Annoyed over Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s ‘Bajrangbali v/s Ali’ remark during electioneering in Indore, several minority office-bearers and workers of Bharatiya Janata Party have resigned in Madhya Pradesh.
Around two dozen office bearers of the BJP including the minority cell members and workers have quit membership to the party against Yogi Adityanath’s remarks during an election rally in Rau assembly constituency recently.Indore long considered a saffron citadel according to BJP minority cell members has around six lakh Muslim voters out of the total electorate of 26 lakhs. Indore-1, Indore-5 (that include Muslim dominated Khajrana aea), Rau and Mhow have sizable Muslim population.
Among those who resigned from the party include BJP Rau nagar vice president, Sonu Ansari, vice president of Maharana Pratap mandal, Danish Ansari, a member of BJP city working committee, Anis Khan, Riyaz Ansari --both member of Indore BJP minority cell and Aman Memon, a mandal vice president.In all, close to two dozen minority persons have resigned including eight office-bearers and the rest being party workers from different areas in Indore.Almost all those who have resigned echo similar sentiments claiming why not talk on BJP’s development instead of dragging caste and religion into politics unnecessarily.Confirming the development, BJP Minority Cell state vice president Nasir Shah said that he would write letters to party chief Amit Shah and state head Rakesh Singh briefing them about the public sentiments and party workers’ views on the matter on Wednesday.