AMN / New Delhi
BJP veterans Lal Krishna Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi have not made it to the BJP list of 40 leaders who will be campaigning for the party’s candidates during the first two phases of LS elections in UP.
Also Party veterans Lal Krishna Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi have not made it to the BJP list of 40 leaders who will be campaigning for the party’s candidates during the first two phases of LS elections in UP.
Former BJP president and Lok Sabha MP Murli Manohar Joshi has been asked by his party to not contest the coming general election, a development in line with its decision to not field many of its veterans, including its founding member and longest serving chief L.K. Advani, in the polls.
Joshi’s office confirmed the development. It said Joshi has issued a brief statement for voters in Kanpur, from where the 85-year-old leader had won in 2014.
The statement said BJP general secretary (organisation) Ram Lal, a Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) appointee, had conveyed Joshi the party leadership’s decision that he should not be contesting the elections.
He had vacated Varanasi seat, which he had won in 2009, for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014.