After being denied a ticket for the forthcoming Assembly elections in Haryana, the ruling BJP legislator from Ratia Reserve Assembly constituency Lakshman Dass Napa quits the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The announcement came after BJP put out the first list of the 67 candidates for the elections, citing that he is quitting the party, and resigning from his primary membership. Dass wrote the same in a letter to state party chief Mohan Lal Badoli.
From Ratia, this time the party has trusted former Sirsa MP Sunita Duggal.
In the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Duggal had been denied re-nomination from the Sirsa parliamentary constituency after former Haryana Congress chief Ashok Tanwar, who had joined BJP ahead of the LS polls, was given the ticket.
Tanwar, however, lost to Congress veteran Kumari Selja.
In its first list released on Wednesday, the BJP fielded Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, who is the sitting MLA from Karnal, from the Ladwa seat, and rewarded several recent entrants to the party with poll tickets.
The BJP is aiming for a hattrick in the Haryana Assembly polls but faces a tough challenge from a resurgent Congress which is looking to cash in on the anti-incumbency factor.
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