All is well within party, says Ashok Parnami
JAIPUR: Rajasthan Bharatiya Janata Party chief Ashok Parnami on Saturday denied there was resentment among the grassroots members over some government decisions and said that some stray incidents couldn’t be made into a rule.
Parnami was responding to party workers’ pessimistic reaction to state higher education minister Kali Charan Saraf ’s straight question in Bikaner recently. Saraf had asked as to how they would rate the BJP if the state elections were held right now. The workers had said that the party would be as shocked as the Congress was in the last elections. The workers felt that if the government took important decisions just before the state elections then such moves won’t fetch the desired results in the elections due to short of time for their implementation. They also took exception to the government’s recent decision of reducing subsidy on farm ponds and solar energy.
However, Parnami said the BJP was playing its role with responsibility. Today it had a strong hold in the state. He said, “There have been some loopholes too. If out of 10 works, eight are done and two are pending then only two pending works is remembered and eight works are forgotten. The incident in Bikaner is like this.”
He said at present around 8000 to 9000 party workers were participating in the district-level interactive sessions with the ministers. This itself showed that ‘there is excitement among them.’
However, in Jodhpur, the BJP workers shared their concerns with Parnami, UDH minister Rajpal Singh Shekhawat and PHED minister Kiran Maheshwari during the past two days and said that they were feeling neglected in the BJP government.
Parnami and two ministers of the state government participated at the booth-level Sammelan at Jodhpur on Thursday and Friday. Maheshwari, while counting the achievements of the government claimed what Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government could not do in 10 years in the city, her government had done the same in just two years. Poonaram Bhawani, a grassroot party workers at this time intervened saying they had pasted the party banners and posters and why they were now being sidelined.