Black flags greet Kirron

Protesters raise slogans, hurl eggs; most of them Dhawan’s supporters Rajinder Nagarkoti
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 18
Actor and BJP candidate Kirron Kher was met with black flags and slogans as she arrived in Chandigarh today. The disgruntled party workers also threw eggs at the BJP candidate. BJP workers, who were upset with the party high command for sidelining local party leaders and giving ticket to Kher, first showed black flags alongside the stretch from Hallo Majra roundabout to the Tribune roundabout on her route from the Chandigarh Airport to the BJP office “Kamlam”, in Sector 33.

The senior BJP leaders even changed her route to save her from the protesting crowd. But when Kher reached the party office along with her husband Anupam Kher, who is also an actor, many party workers waived black flags at her.

Thereafter, when she entered the party office and started addressing the party workers and the media, again a group of BJP workers interrupted her address and waved black flags at her inside the party office. The protesters were raising slogans “Kirron Kher go back”. To counter their slogans, some of the party workers raised slogans in support of Kher and BJP PM candidate Narendra Modi.

BJP workers even threw eggs at Kirron Kher’s husband Anupam Kher’s car, when he came out of the party office.

There was tight security arrangement made by the Chandigarh Police at the BJP office and also at her parent’s house in Sector 8. The police even rounded up four protesters from the BJP office. The BJP high command preferred Kher to city unit president Sanjay Tandon, former MP Satya Pal Jain and former Union Minister Harmohan Dhawan, who were ticket aspirants. Today, only Tandon and Jain accompanied her to the party office. The protesters, who raised slogans against Kher, were mostly Dhawan’s supporters.

I am city’s daughter, not a paratrooper: Kirron

Kirron Kher, while interacting with mediapersons, said she was not a paratrooper candidate, rather she was the “city’s daughter”. On the protest by the BJP workers, she said people protest against big leaders and it was a part of political life. She said all were a part of the BJP family and all those who protested against her would come around. On Dhawan’s absence, Kher said he was their party leader and she would sort out differences after meeting him. On former minister and Congress candidate Pawan Kumar Bansal’s statement that she didn’t know anything about the city, Kher said she knew where Mani Majra and Dadu Majra were.

4 district presidents resign

Opposition against Kirron Kher’s candidature refuses to die down. To oppose Kher’s candidature from the Chandigarh seat, four district presidents resigned from their posts on Tuesday. With this, all five BJP district presidents have resigned following the development. The district presidents who resigned are BC Puri, Ravi Sharma, Devi Singh and Shakti Devshali. However, they will continue to be party members.

Had to leave party office in car

BJP workers, who were protesting against Kher, even used unparliamentary language and hurled derogatory remarks at BJP leader Satya Pal Jain. The workers were so agitated that Kirron Kher left the party office in her car with police protection.

BJP city chief meets Dhawan

BJP general secretary Aarti Mehra and city unit president Sanjay Tandon met BJP leader Harmohan Dhawan at his residence and asked him to come out openly in support of Kher, but nothing worked out among them.

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