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Bharatiya Janata Party State president Surya Pratap Shahi on Thursday send his resignation to party national president Nitin Gadkari, owing moral responsibility for the electoral debacle in Uttar Pradesh elections. “I have written a personal letter to the national president and will not elaborate much on it,” Mr. Shahi told.
The BJP which won 51 seats in the 2007 polls was reduced to 47 this time. Even Mr. Shahi, who contested from Pathardeva seat in Kushinagar, lost in the elections.
With early trends depicted a good show by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh, the party said it took up issues which were not “sensational” even as it gave credit to Nitin Gadkari for the performance.
BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said the party will not enter into alliance with any political party to form government in Uttar Pradesh. Criticising the ruling BSP government, Gadkari said that it was a “wholesale shop of corruption”. “BSP is a wholesale shop of corruption. He also termed RLD leader Ajit Singh as a “kali pili taxi” that “any one car hire him for short term benefits”.
BJP is not anti-Muslim, but on the name of religion the reservation is not acceptable, Gadkari said.
The two opposing leaders addressing rallies in Kanpur today where polls will go on February 23. first Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi who has been campaigning hard for the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls is scheduled to hold a rally in Kanpur. Union Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said, ” Rahul Gandhi’s campaign programme in Kanpur is confirmed. He will takeout a roadshow in support of the party candidates”.
Meanwhile, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari will also be seen today in Kanpur where he is scheduled to address people in support of his party candidates. Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh…
Reacting to Nitin Gadkari’s criticism of Rahul Gandhi, Congress told the BJP president that he should focus on his work and “not become an astrologer”. “It will be better if he does not become an astrologer and focus on his work as party chief,” party spokesperson Renuka Chowdhary told.
Rahul Gandhi has proved that he is not yet mature. Tearing a party’s manifesto during a public meeting clearly shows his immature behaviour. He is immature and is not fit to be in national politics. This is childish behaviour and he has proved it, the BJP president told an election rally in…
Bharatiya Janata Party chief Nitin Gadkari accusing on Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party of being “hand-in-glove” over the issues of corruption and vote bank politics. they also declared that if it failed to get majority in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, it would sit in the opposition.
He said reservations based on religious identity were “at variance with the stand taken by stalwarts like Jawaharlal Nehru, Maulana Azad and Shyama Prasad Mookerjee when the issue had come up for discussion before the Constituent Assembly”. All these parties appear to be hand-in-glove”, BJP National President Nitin Gadkari told reporters here.…