Faced with opposition over the criterion for the distribution of tickets for the forthcoming urban body elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday changed over 10 candidates, including six for the post of chairpersons of municipalities.
They included Rajesh Julania, nephew of water resources department’s Principal Secretary RS Julania. Rajesh was fielded from Khujner municipality in Rajgarh district. Now, he has been dropped and replaced by Pankaj Sharma. Particularly, the candidature of Julania was widely opposed by the local residents and they had registered opposition reaching the State BJP headquarters two days ago.
Similarly, in Ashoknagar municipality, the candidature of Kamlesh Yadav for the post of chairperson has been replaced by Sushila Sahu, in Chachoda municipality (Guna district) Babulal Mali has been replaced by Krishna Soni, in Gotegaon municipality (Narsinghpur district) Namita Patel has been replaced by Vandana Arya, in Amanganj municipality (Panna district) Kamta Prasad has been replaced by Sharda Prasad and in Udaipura municipality (Raisen district) MR loga has been replaced by Keshav Singh.
Besides, the party has also changed candidatures of five corporators’ posts. In Gwalior, for ward 40, the candidature of Nanhe Singh Kushwah has been replaced by Dharmendra Singh Kushwah, in ward 15 of Hoshangabad municipality, Surya Prakash Sharma has been replaced by Vikas Naroliya, in ward 19 of Dewas municipal corporation, Vaijanti Ramesh has been replaced by Shanta Thakur and in Katni municipal corporation, candidatures of Preeti Khare (ward 19) and Aparna Singh (ward 20) have been replaced by Zakir Ahmed and Safeena Bee.