Security was beefed up in all BJP offices across the state after violence broke out after the announcement of the list of candidates. (Image: Congress/Twitter)
Several BJP leaders, including aspirants for party tickets but recent defectors, were left to accommodate.
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Angry BJP workers in Manipur burnt effigies and flags of Chief Minister N Biren Singh and state unit president Sharda Devi on Sunday, even as they ransacked local offices and raised slogans against the ruling party’s list of assembly election candidates. in which the defectors were shown. Congress is ignoring many loyalists. Official sources said security has been tightened at all BJP offices across the state following the violence that broke out after the announcement of the list of candidates.
Several BJP leaders, including those who were aspiring for party tickets but were left to accommodate recent defectors, also resigned from the primary membership of the party. In Sagolband, Kakching, Moirang, Keesamthong assembly constituencies, angry workers burnt party flags, pamphlets, ransacked local offices and raised slogans to show their protest. In Thanga, workers burnt effigies of the chief minister and state BJP president, former Trinamool Congress MLA T Robindro, who had won the 2017 election but later joined the saffron party, was chosen to contest. Former minister Nimaichand Luwang and first-time aspirant Thangjam Arunkumar, who had sought BJP tickets for Wangkhem and Wangkhei assembly constituencies respectively, tendered their resignations from the primary membership of the party. Thangjam later joined the JD(U).
BJP workers claimed that all the members of Khangabok Mandal tendered their mass resignation citing “recent ticket to a BJP novice”, ignoring a leader who had sacrificed for the BJP for nearly two decades. In Sagolband, the protesters slammed the BJP leadership for giving ticket to former Congress MLA RK Imo, who had joined the party in November last year, claiming that their candidate and their workers who had supported the BJP for 10 years. were, were ignored. Meanwhile, SSB personnel in full riot gear and state security forces are maintaining vigil at Thumbal Sangalen, the BJP headquarters in Imphal city centre. The Bharatiya Janata Party, which joined hands with two local parties, the NPP and the NPF, to form the government in 2017 despite having just 21 seats, compared to the Congress’s 28, says it wants to win two-thirds of the seats in the upcoming elections. Is. Two phases on 27 February and 3 March.
It will contest all 60 seats as the Naga People’s Front (NPF) has split from it, while it has decided not to enter into any pre-poll alliance with the National People’s Party (NPP), with which it also has a stake in Meghalaya. is an alliance. ,
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