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Though BJP leaders person denied reports of Jakhar’s connection to resign, Jakhar himself has not refuted the reports. (Express Archives)
Punjab BJP main Sunil Jakhar has fixed the exigency gathering of the authorities enactment portion being held astatine Chandigarh connected Monday a miss. Vijay Rupani, the enactment in-charge of Punjab and Chandigarh, is chairing the meeting.
This improvement came a mates of days aft news of Jakhar’s purported resignation hit the headlines but the BJP had past denied the reports.
Rupani, too, denied that Jakhar was resigning and told media persons that the Punjab BJP main was successful Delhi to be immoderate party-related activities.
Pritpal Singh Baliawal, authorities BJP spokesperson, told The Indian Express, “Monday’s gathering was a planned 1 to sermon the upcoming panchayat polls, bypolls and section assemblage polls. Vijay Rupaniji is chairing this meeting. We volition besides beryllium reviewing the archetypal signifier of the rank thrust which is ending connected Monday. The 2nd signifier volition commencement from Tuesday.”
He added that Jakhar volition scope the authorities successful 3 to 4 days.
Sources said that Jakhar held a gathering with BJP nationalist president J P Nadda precocious and conveyed to him that helium was not keen to proceed arsenic the authorities president of the party.
He reportedly communicated respective times successful the past to the enactment enactment that helium was consenting to resign if enactment workers were not blessed with his benignant of functioning.
Notably, though BJP leaders person denied reports of Jakhar’s connection to resign, Jakhar himself has not refuted the reports.
When contacted, Sandeep Jakhar, suspended Congress Abohar MLA and Sunil Jakhar’s nephew, said, “I had a little enactment with my uncle connected Saturday aft I work the media reports astir his resignation. But helium didn’t sermon the contented and told maine to ore connected my constituency.”
Sources said the BJP is not keen connected replacing Sunil Jakhar until aft the Haryana, and Jammu and Kashmir polls, and an announcement, if any, was apt to beryllium made aft October 5.
Sunil Jakhar had besides fixed the caller enactment gathering held successful Bathinda to sermon bypoll candidates for Barnala and Gidderbaha constituencies and different gathering successful Amritsar for Chabbewal and Dera Baba Nanak constituencies a miss. The 4 Assembly constituencies are expected to spell for bypolls successful the adjacent fewer months.
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