Patna: One more senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and four-time MP
from Bihar, Lal Muni Chaubey, has also raised the banner of revolt
against the party leadership and even called party President Rajnath
Singh "a leader of slaves" who has sidelined genuine supporters.
Chaubey, who was denied the ticket from Buxar in eastern Bihar, has
decided to contest as an Independent against BJP's official Ashwini
Kumar Chaubey. He is likely to file his nomination on Tuesday afternoon.
"BJP has become a party of slaves and Rajnath Singh is a leader of
slaves. I belong to Buxar as well as Varanasi. I will ensure BJP loses
in the poorvanchal belt of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh including Varanasi,"
Lal Muni Chaubey said. BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is
contesting from Varanasi apart from Vadodara in Gujarat.
Echoing his colleague from Rajasthan Jaswant Singh's views, he claimed
that the voters of Buxar would defeat the "fake BJP candidate". He said
that Ashwini Kumar Chaubey is an outsider who wanted to contest from
Bhagalpur but the party placated him by accommodating him from Buxar.
Denying reports that BJP leadership has offered him the post of governor
after the party forms the government at the Centre, Chaubey said he was
not interested in any post and wanted to strengthen the party which had
been admitting even those people in large numbers who had been its
virulent critics just a few days back.
He alleged that senior leaders like Lal Krishna Advani and Jaswant Singh
had been humiliated by the party leadership. Pointing that the name of
former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Advani are missing from
the campaign slogans, he added that the latter has been given the
Gandhinagar seat to ensure his defeat so that there is no one who can
challenge the top leaders.
Chaubey had won from Buxar in 1996, 98, 99 and 2004. He narrowly lost to
Rashtriya Janata Dal's Sadanand Singh in the 2009 elections by just
over 2000 votes.
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