NDA warns ticket aspirants after incidents of indiscipline in Gaya

Gaya: The NDA has cautioned ticket aspirants of the district against public exuberance and one-upmanship, following two highly embarrassing incidents caused by apparent indiscipline.The warning has come in the wake of the fall of former Union minister Ashwini Chaubey as his chair was pulled back by someone inadvertently on stage in Sherghati and a chaos at an NDA workers’ meeting in Atri a few days later on Wednesday.Conceding that both these incidents were “sharmnak” (shameful), district BJP chief Prem Prakash alias Chintu said that corrective steps to prevent the repeat of such incidents were being taken, and ticket aspirants have been warned against the over-exuberance of their supporters. The aspirants will be account for the indiscretions of their supporters, said the district BJP chief.Explaining the incident of Chaubey’s fall, he said that it was a case of over-exuberance as a party worker who was personally indebted to the former Union minister inadvertently pulled back the chair in order to seek his blessings. The party worker belonged to Chaubey’s caste, said the district BJP chief.In any case, the chair on which Chaubey tried to sit was not earmarked for him, but for JD(U) minister Shrawan Kumar, added Chintu.Asked about the act of alliance leaders, sitting on the dais, smiling, the district BJP chief termed it highly embarrassing and avoidable.A few days after the incident a scuffle took place between the supporters of different aspirants for the Atri assembly seat during the NDA workers’ meeting. The JD(U) has been contesting the Atri seat, and of late LJP (Ram Vilas) has also set its eyes on the seat. In 2020, besides the JD(U), LJP had contested the Atri seat and got a respectable 25,000-plus votes.As the NDA workers' meeting was about to begin, folk singers purportedly brought by the supporters of former MLA Krishna Nandan Yadav started singing paeans eulogising him. In the meantime, the supporters of other aspirants stormed the stage, and police had to intervene.Calling it a minor aberration, district JD(U) chief Dwarka Prasad said that such incidents are not uncommon during election time, and nothing much must be read into it. The issue was instantly and amicably resolved, Prasad claimed.Senior BJP leader and cooperative minister Prem Kumar said that he was not aware of these developments as he was on tour. If true, these things should not have happened, said Kumar.