The matter was taken-up during a closed-door election meeting headed by BJP national vice-president Prabhat Jha on Sunday. Jha was discussing tickets distribution for the seven assembly seats in the state capital. Party leader and workers unanimously agreed that three sitting MLAs, two of who are ministers are totally safe in their respective constituencies including minister for urban development Babulal Gaur from Govindpura seat, home minister Uma Shankar Gupta from Bhopal South-west and MLA Vishwas Sarang from Narela.
Two other seats would retain their sitting BJP MLAs for various other reasons. Jitendra Daga from Huzur because he has been active and hardworking and RTI activist Shehla Masood controversy hit Dhruv Narayan Singh from Bhopal- central because he is supported by the powerful Thakur-feudal lobby of the party. Berasia seat represented by Brahmanand Ratnakar, a liquor baron might see a change of face.
But the main problem was surrounding Bhopal North, the only Muslim dominated seat in Bhopal which is represented by a Congress MLA and former minister of the Digvijay Singh Congress government Arif Aqueel. Ever since the BJP came to power in 2003, Arif Aqueel has been the only Muslim MLA sitting in the Madhya Pradesh assembly.
This is a seat that nobody stakes claim to in the ruling-party since the BJP has won it once only in the early 90s when it fielded Ramesh Sharma aka Gattu Bhaiyya. That was also the one time when the seat was represented by a member of the Hindu community. ``There are a number of leaders who want tickets to contest the elections. And they agree to contesting from any other of the 229 remaining constituencies in the state but from Bhopal-North,'' a state BJP leader said.
In 2008, the BJP fielded a close-aide of chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and his childhood friend Alok Sharma from the seat. Sharma lost by 5,000 votes. ``It is a lost seat again, unless we think of changing our strategy and that will be to field a Muslim candidate from the seat,'' the BJP leader added. The BJP has two likely candidates for the Bhopal North seat - former Union minister Arif Baig who was close to BJP veteran Atal Behari Vajpayee and the chairman of the state minority commission Anwar Mohammad Khan, a follower of the former chief minister Sundarlal Patwa faction. After the meeting, the names of these candidates were sealed in an envelope and sent to the state BJP chief Narendra Singh Tomar who will forward the same to the campaign committee for approval.
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