• Source:JND

As the new President of the world’s largest political party, the BJP, Nitin Nabin assumed charge on Tuesday, the Congress party questioned the electoral democracy in the Bharatiya Janata Party for the President post.

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Nabin his ‘Boss in Party matters’, the opposition took a jibe at the election process and asked whether ‘they are playing Bigg Boss’.

Questioning the election process and targeting the Chief Election Commissioner, Congress's media and publicity department head, Pawan Khera claimed tha BJP was ‘playing Bigg Boss’.

“Is Bigg Boss game being played here. What is this? The biggest boss of Hindu dharma is shedding tears and they are busy playing Bigg Boss,”Khera said. “Gyanesh Kumar wants to resign in protest; he has no role, he can't even influence, he can't even manipulate anything,” PTI quoted him saying further.

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Questioning the integrity of the electoral process for the BJP’s President, Khera asked where the election was held, adding that first they announced the name of the President and then said the election would be held.

“Where is the election? Why do you even call it an election. You announce the president first and then say there will be an election, and then there is no election,” Khera said at a press conference.

RJD Calls BJP President Result ‘Pre-Decided’

The Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Manoj Jha, reacting to the announcement of Nitin Nabin becoming the BJP’s new President, said that it is the BJP’s internal matter, but it was ‘Pre-Decided’.

"It is the party's internal matter, but there was nothing like an electoral process in all of this. Whatever happened was pre-decided…" Jha said, while congratulating Nabin.

Not A ‘Big Issue’: AIMIM President Questions Overhype

The President of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM),questioned why BJP’s president election is being made ‘big issue’. “The real issues are that a Muslim person was lynched by mob, unemployment…” ANI quoted Owaisi as saying.

PM Modi, Amit Shah Takes Decision In BJP

Another Congress leader, MP Manickam Tagore, questioned the election process and claimed that PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah take all the key decisions in the BJP.

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“There is no democracy in BJP, only HM Amit Shah and PM Modi take the decisions and they have proved it again... What is the work of the returning officer when there is no election?” Tagore asked, while saying that the Congress had held elections for the party president's post wherein Shashi Tharoor and Mallikarjun Kharge were candidates.


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