Modi cabinet rejig: MoS Home Ajay Mishra Teni faces axe
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LUCKNOW: At least two of the 15 faces from UP within the Narendra Modi cabinet could also be dropped within the a lot anticipated ministerial reshuffle, sources within the state capital stated. The two ministers prone to be dropped within the reshuffle embrace Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’ and Chandauli MP and heavy trade minister Mahendra Nath Pandey.
Teni has been hitting the headlines for all of the improper causes since October 2021 when his son Ashish Mishra led a carcade, comprising an SUV that ran 4 protesting farmers over, trampling them to loss of life in Lakhimpur Kheri.
The farmers have been protesting in opposition to the three farm legal guidelines which have been later repealed. Currently, Teni’s son, accused of the homicide of the 4 farmers, is out on bail however restricted from coming into UP by the Supreme Court. Sources stated Teni and Mahendra Nath Pandey, each outstanding Brahmin faces of the BJP, could also be changed by two caste representatives, together with former UP BJP chief Laxmi Kant Bajpai, who’s a Rajya Sabha member, and Harish Dwivedi, get together MP from Basti in jap UP.
Bajpai is MLA from Meerut a number of occasions. However, he needed to style a crushing defeat within the saffron surge of 2017. Bajpai is counted among the many frontline leaders of the state BJP with a powerful RSS background. He was despatched to Rajya Sabha by the get together in May 2022.
No LS ticket for Varun Gandhi?
Meanwhile, observers imagine the get together could deny the ticket to its Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections on condition that Varun has emerged as one of many strongest detractors of his get together’s authorities over quite a lot of points, together with farmer misery, unemployment, worth rise, rural stress, amongst others.
Sources surprise if Varun will contest the Lok Sabha election from BJP or if he’s considering a political shift within the run-up to the 2024 polls. However, the Pilibhit MP has by no means hinted a couple of change, resulting in hypothesis about his future strikes. Varun had taken the plunge into electoral politics in 2009 by successful the Pilibhit Lok Sabha seat with an enormous margin. Then Pilibhit was his mom Maneka Gandhi’s constituency. Now she is an MP from Sultanpur in central UP.
Sources stated the get together might imagine twice earlier than deciding on the ticket to Varun from Pilibhit in 2024. “In his place, the party may prefer Sanjay Singh Gangwar, an OBC and two-time MLA from the Pilibhit City Assembly segment. It will help the party to send across a positive message to the OBCs who have been backing the BJP overwhelmingly since 2014,” says a senior BJP chief.
Observers say the BJP must nurture one other OBC chief in Terai and Bareilly areas after Santosh Gangwar, who’s now 74. He has been a frontrunner of stature within the Bareilly area and has represented the seat in Lok Sabha eight occasions from 1989 to 2019, besides in 2009 when he misplaced the election by a slim margin to Congress Praveen Singh Aron.
“The party is looking for another OBC leader who can match the charisma and popularity of Santosh Gangwar in Bareilly and adjoining seats,” says a senior BJP chief.
Meanwhile, Varun Gandhi has been fairly vocal in expressing his dissent over points within the current previous however the get together has been following guarded silence over his diatribes. Though the get together didn’t provoke any disciplinary motion in opposition to the Gandhi scion, it sidelined him within the organisation. He alongside together with his mom Maneka Gandhi was dropped from the get together’s nationwide government committee.
LUCKNOW: At least two of the 15 faces from UP within the Narendra Modi cabinet could also be dropped within the a lot anticipated ministerial reshuffle, sources within the state capital stated. The two ministers prone to be dropped within the reshuffle embrace Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’ and Chandauli MP and heavy trade minister Mahendra Nath Pandey.
Teni has been hitting the headlines for all of the improper causes since October 2021 when his son Ashish Mishra led a carcade, comprising an SUV that ran 4 protesting farmers over, trampling them to loss of life in Lakhimpur Kheri.
The farmers have been protesting in opposition to the three farm legal guidelines which have been later repealed. Currently, Teni’s son, accused of the homicide of the 4 farmers, is out on bail however restricted from coming into UP by the Supreme Court. Sources stated Teni and Mahendra Nath Pandey, each outstanding Brahmin faces of the BJP, could also be changed by two caste representatives, together with former UP BJP chief Laxmi Kant Bajpai, who’s a Rajya Sabha member, and Harish Dwivedi, get together MP from Basti in jap UP.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Bajpai is MLA from Meerut a number of occasions. However, he needed to style a crushing defeat within the saffron surge of 2017. Bajpai is counted among the many frontline leaders of the state BJP with a powerful RSS background. He was despatched to Rajya Sabha by the get together in May 2022.
No LS ticket for Varun Gandhi?
Meanwhile, observers imagine the get together could deny the ticket to its Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections on condition that Varun has emerged as one of many strongest detractors of his get together’s authorities over quite a lot of points, together with farmer misery, unemployment, worth rise, rural stress, amongst others.
Sources surprise if Varun will contest the Lok Sabha election from BJP or if he’s considering a political shift within the run-up to the 2024 polls. However, the Pilibhit MP has by no means hinted a couple of change, resulting in hypothesis about his future strikes. Varun had taken the plunge into electoral politics in 2009 by successful the Pilibhit Lok Sabha seat with an enormous margin. Then Pilibhit was his mom Maneka Gandhi’s constituency. Now she is an MP from Sultanpur in central UP.
Sources stated the get together might imagine twice earlier than deciding on the ticket to Varun from Pilibhit in 2024. “In his place, the party may prefer Sanjay Singh Gangwar, an OBC and two-time MLA from the Pilibhit City Assembly segment. It will help the party to send across a positive message to the OBCs who have been backing the BJP overwhelmingly since 2014,” says a senior BJP chief.
Observers say the BJP must nurture one other OBC chief in Terai and Bareilly areas after Santosh Gangwar, who’s now 74. He has been a frontrunner of stature within the Bareilly area and has represented the seat in Lok Sabha eight occasions from 1989 to 2019, besides in 2009 when he misplaced the election by a slim margin to Congress Praveen Singh Aron.
“The party is looking for another OBC leader who can match the charisma and popularity of Santosh Gangwar in Bareilly and adjoining seats,” says a senior BJP chief.
Meanwhile, Varun Gandhi has been fairly vocal in expressing his dissent over points within the current previous however the get together has been following guarded silence over his diatribes. Though the get together didn’t provoke any disciplinary motion in opposition to the Gandhi scion, it sidelined him within the organisation. He alongside together with his mom Maneka Gandhi was dropped from the get together’s nationwide government committee.
