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Ratia: After being dropped from the candidature to re-enter the poll fray in Haryana, BJP Ratia legislator Lakshman Napa has resigned from the party’s primary membership. His decision comes immediately after the party fielded its former Sirsa MP Sunita Duggal from the Ratia Assembly seat for the October poll.
With his resignation, speculation is rife about his joining the Congress after meeting with former Chief Minister Bhupinder Hooda. The BJP on Wednesday released its first list of 67 candidates, fielding Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini from Ladwa in Kurukshetra district.
Saini, who replaced Manohar Lal Khattar as the Chief Minister in March this year, is currently the MLA from Karnal. Eight women also figured in the list of candidates. More than half of BJP’s 41 MLAs have been re-nominated. Former Haryana BJP chief Om Prakash Dhankar, who is the party’s national secretary, has been fielded from Badli while veteran party leader Anil Vij seeking re-election from his stronghold Ambala Cantonment.
The list also includes Union Minister Rao Inderjit Singh’s daughter Aarti Rao who has been fielded from Ateli, while Shruti Choudhry, who recently quit the Congress along with her mother and former Haryana CM Bansi Lal’s daughter-in-law Kiran Choudhry, has been fielded from Tosham.
