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Patna,(BiharTimes): Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh had opposed the candidature of the slain BJP MLA Raj Kishore Kesri from Purnea last year. The organization had resisted his name because of his past record and complaints made by Rupam Pathak last April.
According to RSS sources the organization wanted his replacement because it would give a bad name to the Sangh Parivar. The issue was even raised at the Core Committee meeting of the BJP, where several members strongly opposed Kesri’s name.
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Earlier reports said that there was verbal clash between the BJP MP from Purnea, Uday Singh and Kesri in the party office on the eve of Assembly election.
The rank and file of the BJP too are quite upset over the development and many of them feel that the seat is, for all practical purpose, lost to the party.
Last year the name of Vijay Khemka and Mrigendra Dev were taken up for consideration but a strong lobby helped Kesri get the ticket in the final moment. The lobby argued before the central leadership that change of a sitting MLA would send a wrong message to the voters.
However, those opposed to the deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi camp are of the view that the party had changed several sitting MLAs in the region, especially in the neigbhouring Araria district so this was not at all an issue.
Many in the Sangh Parivar are disturbed over the way the deputy chief minister had gone out of way to defend the controversial late MLA. This notwithstanding the fact that the chief minister Nitish Kumar refused to share dais with Raj Kishore Kesri when he visited Purnea during the Vishwas Yatra last year. Modi is already finding himself alone on the Rupam Pathak issue.
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