Following the announcement of its candidates for civic body elections in the state, Chhattisgarh BJP is facing opposition from its own leaders and party workers over the selection of nominees.
As the BJP announced the list of candidates before the Congress so more protest is seen among the BJP functionaries across the state.
In capital city, on Thursday, Raipur district women cell president Shailendri Pargania along with women party workers submitted their mass resignation to BJP state organisation secretary Pawan Sai. They alleged that for last 20 years they have been working for party but they were ignored during ticket distribution.
As per party insiders, senior party leader and spokespersons Sachchidanand Upasane and Shrichand Sunderani also walked out of the meeting on Wednesday night raising allegations of indifference of party over selection of candidates. They said out of 66 seats, 20 are general seats but party has preferred SC, ST and OBC candidates on theses seats also.
The party supporters of three times corporator Dr Pramod Sahu registered protest before Raipur City President Rajiv Agrawal’s residence for denying party ticket and replacing him with party spokesperson Sanjay Shrivastava. Workers alleged Shrivastava is an ‘outsider’.
Similarly four times Corporator V Ramarao of Bilaspur Railway area resigned in protest over denial of ticket and joined the Congress. In Bijapur, former MP Representative and BJP leader Shrinivas Reddy has also resigned raising allegations against former minister Mahesh Gagda.
Large number of BJP workers, including former corporators and senior workers, working for party for more than 20 years in Kumhari joined the Congress.