Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 30: In yet another rebellion within the BJP over ticket distribution for the Assembly elections, senior party leader and one of its founder members in J&K, Chander Mohan Sharma today resigned from the party and threatened to contest the Assembly poll from Jammu East as an Independent candidate.
The BJP is facing resentment over its ticket distribution in the Union Territory, with party leaders and workers protesting in several districts of the Jammu region. Sharma, who is an advocate by profession and who joined the BJP in the early 1970s, criticised the party leadership in J&K for improperly presenting the proposal for mandates to the party High Command.
“We hope the party leadership accepts my resignation. However, if they reconsider their decision on the mandate change in the Jammu East Assembly segment, it is okay. Otherwise, I will accept the calls from workers who want me to contest independently from the Jammu East seat,” Sharma told reporters here, today.
“The people of the Jammu East segment fully support us, having worked closely with us during the Tawi Andolan movement,” he added. “It is now time for the senior BJP leaders camping here to make a decision on this matter.”
Sharma, who joined the Jan Sangh decades ago and faced multiple prison terms as a BJP activist, lamented at being ignored despite his senior position in the party unit.
Sharma who resigned from the party charged BJP leadership of damaging the pro BJP wave in the UT by their wrong and unjust distribution of party tickets for upcoming Assembly elections and also by diverting the party from its core agenda.
He said there is lot of distress and anguish among the party men who were questioning the criteria of distribution of tickets as personal likes and dislikes were the main consideration. Besides him Balwinder Singh Bhatia, co convener of Namami Ganga Department of the Party and member of district Unit of the party and also other supporters resigned from the party.
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