Vikram Dhatwalia, Hamirpur18 minutes ago
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The shock given by former Himachal CM Prem Kumar Dhumal suddenly declaring not to contest the assembly elections, along with his supporters, the state BJP is not able to emerge from that shock. As soon as the first list of tickets came, there was a situation of rebellion in more than a dozen seats. Anurag Thakur seems to be fulfilling the statement given about the future CM face.
In the midst of this whole ruckus, everyone wants to know that why Dhumal, who has been showing a lot of activity in the Sujanpur assembly seat for 3-4 months, suddenly decided not to contest the elections in the Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting of the BJP in Delhi? What happened in this meeting? So, let us introduce you to the developments in this meeting, sequentially. Who said what in the meeting? and why fumes
Dhumal sitting next to CM Jai Ram Thakur
All the leaders reached the BJP headquarters in New Delhi on the morning of 17 October for the meeting of the recently constituted Central Election Committee (CEC) by the BJP high command. The meeting started at 10.30 am under the chairmanship of Himachal BJP President Suresh Kashyap. In this meeting, Suresh Kashyap’s national vice president and Himachal election in-charge Saudan Singh sat on one side and CM Jairam sat on the other side.
Former CM Premkumar Dhumal sat next to CM Jairam. On the other side of Dhumal was the chair of BJP’s Himachal Pradesh in-charge Avinash Rai Khanna and co-in-charge Sanjay Tandon. His son and Union Minister Anurag Thakur was present right in front of Dhumal on the other side of the table.
Saudan Singh said – the decision of Dhumal will be taken directly by the Parliamentary Board
As soon as the discussion on possible candidates started in the meeting, Saudan Singh said that Dhumal is a senior leader, so there will be no discussion in this meeting regarding his candidature. The decision about Dhumal will be taken by the Parliamentary Board directly. From which seat Dhumal has to contest, it should be decided directly by the central leadership.
Dhumal said – I have spoken to the PM
After Saudan Singh’s talk was over, before any other leader could say anything, Premkumar Dhumal said, ‘I am not contesting elections and I have spoken to PM Narendra Modi about this. I have also sent him a letter about this 15 days ago.
The expression of surprise on the faces of the leaders
As soon as Dhumal announced not to contest the elections, every leader present in the meeting was stunned. Everyone started looking at him in surprise. CM Jai Ram Thakur sitting on one side of Dhumal, Avinash Rai Khanna sitting on the other side and Anurag Thakur sitting right in front of all the leaders, including one expression was coming on their faces and the other was going.
Seeing everyone surprised, Dhumal said – it’s old
Sensing the mental state of the leaders present in the meeting, Dhumal took his point further and said that he is 75 years old and now he has no desire to contest elections.
Saudan Singh said – will not send any name in your place
After Dhumal’s talk was over, Saudan Singh took over the mic once again and said, ‘We cannot say anything on your decision. We will not send anyone’s name in your place. Only big leaders will take a decision on this.
Dhumal did not say anything on this matter of Saudan Singh. After this, the discussion started in the meeting regarding the possible candidates from the district wise assembly seats of the state. This meeting lasted till noon.
Another meeting led by Nadda at 8 pm
After the CEC meeting of the BJP was over, another meeting started on the same night at the BJP headquarters in which the situation arising out of Dhumal’s announcement of not contesting the elections was discussed. The meeting started at 8.00 pm and lasted till 2.00 pm. BJP national president JP Nadda also attended this meeting. It was decided in this meeting that if Dhumal sticks to his decision, then whose name he gives from Sujanpur seat of Hamirpur district, the same will be made the candidate.
Next day also meeting in small group
In this meeting that ended late night with Nadda, it was finalized that Dhumal himself would not contest the elections. Who will come in his place? Meetings continued in small groups since Tuesday morning to discuss this. After this, around 9.30 pm, a meeting of the Parliamentary Board started under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP National President JP Nadda, which lasted for a long time. After this, at around 8.30 am on Wednesday morning, the candidates were announced by the BJP for 62 out of 68 seats in Himachal.
These leaders in the CEC meeting
In the meeting of the recently constituted Central Election Committee (CEC) by the BJP high command under the leadership of Himachal Pradesh BJP President Suresh Kashyap, CM Jai Ram Thakur and former CM Prem Kumar Dhumal, besides Himachal BJP Organization General Secretary Pawan Rana and General Secretary Trilok Kapoor, Trilok Jamwal and Rakesh Jamwal were present. Apart from these, BJP’s national vice president and Himachal election in-charge Saudan Singh, Union minister Anurag Thakur, state in-charge Avinash Rai Khanna, co-in-charge Sanjay Tandon, election co-in-charge Devinder Singh Rana, former BJP president Dr. Rajiv Bindal, Satpal Satti and Mahila Morcha. President Rashmi Dhar Sood was present.