Discontentment is conspicuous among the BJP leaders deprived of ticket in the Assembly election and they have come out in the open completely demolishing the discipline in the party.
The rebellious BJP leaders are now moving around the senior leader of Bastar and executive president of National Peoples Party Arvind Netam and Mankuram Sonthi.
According to sources, the most rebellious BJP leaders district panchayat president lachhuram Kashyap and Rajaram Thodem had hours-long closed-door meeting in this respect. lachhuram has declared to fight the election as independent candidate and has taken the nomination papers. The rebel leader duo accused the party with partiality and alleged that it gives tickets to the affluent. The party was humiliating senior leaders, they added.
They said that their supporters were very much in pain and angry over such attitude of the party. They were pressurising to fight the election. The rebels have prepared a strategy against the BJP leader, the sources added.
Meanwhile, incensed of giving ticket to Dhaniram Barse from Konta Assembly seat, the woman claimants Jamuna Majhi and Mousmi Mutthi, who were in the queue for ticket have turned rebellious. The supporters of these woman leaders, accusing the BJP of neglecting women, have decided to field them as independent.
Former chairman of Forest Development Corporation Samundsai Kachh also expressed his indignance. MlA from Kanker, Sumitra Markole is very much angry of cutting her ticket and seeking other options. She said that she has been deprived of ticket because of wrong reporting.
According to political pundits, several rebels were mounting pressure on the party to get posts after the party coming into power, whereas, some others, angry with not getting tickets to them, were preparing themselves to jump into the fray to defeat their opponents. However, the State BJP leadership has given the responsibility of pacifying the rebels to Minister Kedar Kashyap, the sources said.