Sulking BJP workers: Bajpayi needs to explain

Lucknow: Snubbed by central leadership for gifting key positions to turn coats and unable to shape the future course of action, state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party Laxmikant Bajpayi is facing a lot of flak.
Workers have returned from the Vindhayachal meet sulking. Six months have passed since the Vrindavan meet, but party leadership has yet chart a course for its foot soldiers.Central leadership is looking away from state affairs. Union minister Rajnath Singh and the party’s national president Amit Shah did not attend the Vrindavan conference, while in Mirzapur, except for Union minister Kalraj Mishra, no national leader attended the meet. Even Murli Manohar Joshi party’s veteran from the state was not seen during the two day show.
In Vrindavan, party conclave had ended with a heartless call of winning the panchayat elections. This time too the party echoed the same issue without addressing any issue.
Decision to reconstitute the state executive on the eve of the conference is also being questioned for the way he removed Rajbir Singh, MP and son of Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh and Pankaj Singh, son of Union minister, Rajnath Singh besides several others. Pankaj Singh was in charge of party’s Gorakhpur region but Bajpai removed him. Against Rajbir Singh who was removed from dual posts, Dharampal Singh deputy leader in the Assembly in the party has been given three tasks.
In the same manner Bajpai has gifted turn coats like Ramrati Bind, Rajendra Prasad Pandey ,Bhawna Singh key positions in the recent expansion of the state executive taking the total number from 27 to nearly 40. I P Singh, who was sacked from the party for ‘anti-party activities’, has been re-inducted. The committed cadres and loyalists, who were with the party through thick and thin feel depressed over elevation of Bajpayi’s cronies.
The party has already kicked off its membership drive and elections are due in a little over a year’s time, so expansion of the state executive with controversial faces is questionable. Party leaders are also resenting promotion of lightweights like Anupama Jaiswal from party’s secretary to general secretary.
Laxmikant Bajpayi is clearly not able to inspire and generate confidence at grassroots.