BJP state in-charge and former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani is arriving in Ludhiana, Punjab today. Rupani will hold a meeting with district officials and workers today. The BJP high command will also deliberate on the names of the possible candidates for the by-election to be held in the West constituency today. The report of these names will be sent to the Delhi high command from where the name of the candidate will be announced.
The candidate in the BJP will be selected under the organization first formula. The BJP will field a worker of the organization itself. The reason for this is that in the last Lok Sabha elections, the party had given a ticket to a candidate who had left the Congress, due to which there was a lot of factionalism and discord within the party.
The candidate who was given the ticket also lost. Many ground workers were also angry with the high command. Of course, the party workers did not openly protest at that time, but the organization workers of some areas kept quiet.