"Who is Kejriwal to decide our CM candidate?" asked BJP state president Satish Upadhyay. "The party has decided to contest elections under collective leadership and the chief ministerial candidate will be decided by the senior leadership in the future," he added.
Sources within BJP said this move by AAP was a desperate attempt to avoid a direct contest with PM Narendra Modi against whom Kejriwal lost the Lok Sabha elections in Varanasi. Modi, as in other states, will be the face of BJP's election campaign in Delhi.
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AAP rejected the charge. "This is a contest for a state. Modi ji is already the Prime Minister, so unless he is planning to resign and contest from Delhi, we do not see how he enters the fray. The city will vote on the basis on local development work and BJP's national agenda has nothing to do with local politics," said Kejriwal.
Mukhi, on his part, made the challenge more personal. The Janakpuri MLA said Kejriwal has been planning to contest from west Delhi as he couldn't go back to his own constituency of New Delhi. "He hasn't done any work in his constituency, which is why he cannot contest from there again. He is looking for an alternative seat. As for BJP's CM candidate, who is he to decide?" said Mukhi.
AAP's move is also being seen as an attempt to create a rift within BJP that had several claimants for the top post in the last assembly election. This view isn't entirely off the mark. AAP sources said no concerted efforts were being made to sow seeds of discord within BJP, but their move would automatically bring out the various factions within that party. In 2013, too, AAP had challenged BJP's then state chief Vijay Goel.
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"BJP introduced the concept of CM candidates and has always declared a name since the 1990s. What has changed this time? It is evident that the party is scared of losing to AAP and would not like to embarrass a senior member. If BJP has other names or better candidates, they should say so," said an AAP member.
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