lobbying for re-inducting former Minister laxmikant Sharma in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) intensified on Saturday as some of his supporters reached the State BJP headquarters in the afternoon demanding his return to the party fold.
The supporters of laxmikant met State BJP general secretary Arvind Bhadoriya, requesting to take back their leader into the party. However, Bhadoriya said that the matter is still in the court, but decision would be taken by senior party leaders.
On the day when laxmikant was granted bail from the High Court and he was to be released from the jail, BJP's national general secretary Kailash Vijaywargiya had welcomed the decision on his tweets stating that his friend would soon be out from the jail. later, on his release, Vijaywargiya had said that the State president of the party would take a decision about his re-entry to the party.
After BJP's national general secretary Kailash Vijaywargiya, now national vice-president of the Nehru Yuva Kendra (NYK) VD Sharma has advocated former Minister laxmikant Sharma's re-induction in the BJP.
While talking to media persons here on Saturday, Sharma said that laxmikant Sharma has been a devoted party worker and the BJP leadership would certainly take appropriate decision about him. Regarding the criminal cases he has been facing, Sharma said that soon in the court, everything would be clear.
Another party vice-president Raghunandan Sharma has also supported the cause of laxmikant. He told media persons that he (laxmikant) should come and meet so that the process over his re-entry to the party could be initiated.
Earlier, on Friday, State BJP president Nandkumar Singh Chouhan had supported laxmikant's statement that in the Vyapam scam names of RSS functionaries were unnecessary raised by the investigating authorities. Nandkumar Singh Chouhan terming laxmikant his friend, said that regarding his entry to the party a decision would be taken on the initiatives by senior party leaders.