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RSS-BJP alliance dim over UP elections

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Source: Indian Express

There is an undercurrent of conflict between  BJP and the RSS over the allocation of tickets in Uttar Pradesh. Effigies of party national president Amit Shah and state chief Keshav Prasad Maurya have been burned in Lucknow where he recently visited. As per inside stories, this is the first time that there is such agitation just before the elections.

The RSS has six state units in UP and at least four of them are said to have expressed their resentment against what they call “arbitrary ticket distribution” to “outsiders and relatives” instead of those who have actually done the ground work. Sources said that Kshetra Pracharak of eastern UP Shiv Narayan, whose area has 263 Assembly seats, is avoiding meeting BJP candidates.

According to the sources, party’s General Secretary (Organisation) Ramlal and RSS’s Sah-sarkaryawah in-charge of BJP Krishna Gopal have been trying to convince all prant pracharaks that it’s better to paper over the cracks and work for a BJP victory in “the national interest.” But this is easier said than done.

One of the pracharaks is said to have told Ramlal: “Ye aag jisne lagayee hai, wahi bujhayega, hum kya kar sakte hain. (This fire can be doused by those who have ignited it).”

“The BJP leaders took our advice on tickets but hardly honoured it. Initially, there was an understanding that most of the tickets will be given to workers and rest to relatives of leaders and outsiders but they have done just the opposite.” Another senior pracharak based in Varanasi said: “Many things happened which should not have happened. Tickets have gone to those people for whom no one wants to work, RSS or BJP. However, we can’t work against BJP but it is difficult to enthuse workers.”

said a senior RSS pracharak to Indian Express,

 

 

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