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Khurana targets DPCC chief

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Madan Lal Khurana.

NEW DELHI NOV.7. The Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party president, Madan Lal Khurana, today asked the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president, Chaudhary Prem Singh, to step down from his post on moral grounds in view of the conviction of the Youth Congress leader, Shushil Sharma, in the Tandoor murder case. Mr. Prem Singh, who headed the Delhi Congress at that time, had appointed Mr. Sharma as president of Delhi Youth Congress.

In an informal chat with newsmen here, Mr. Khurana said Mr. Prem Singh had no right to talk about morality in public life. "If he really means what he preaches, then Mr. Prem Singh should submit his resignation as DPCC president immediately as his own appointed man has been convicted for murdering his wife, Naina Sahani,'' he said.

As for Mr. Singh asking Mr. Khurana to resign his Lok Sabha seat in view of his contesting the Assembly polls, the Delhi BJP chief said it was the Congress which had set a precedent in this connection. He recalled that Girdhar Gamang, despite being the Chief Minister of Orissa, had come to the Lok Sabha to vote against the Vajpayee Government in 1998 which led to its downfall. Senior Congress leader Manmohan Singh, despite being a member of the Rajya Sabha, had contested the Lok Sabha poll from South Delhi. Even the Uttaranchal Chief Minsiter, N.D. Tiwari, took the oath of office as a Lok Sabha member.

Mr. Khurana said under parliamentary norms he had a time period of 15 days to decide between retaining the Lok Sabha or Assembly seat and he would exercise his discretion when the time comes.

The BJP leader said recently Mr. Prem Singh had remarked that Mr. Khurana should constest from Dr. Ambedkar Nagar (SC) seat represented by the DPCC president. Being a SC seat, it was not possible for him to contest from there but he was ready to contest from the Gole Market seat and offered to Ms. Dikshit to contest the Moti Nagar seat to ascertain what her standing was.

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