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BJP awaits Bhuria's move

By Our Staff Correspondent

BHOPAL, JULY 22. Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in Madhya Pradesh have chosen to adopt a wait-and-watch approach over the party's former vice-president, Dilip Singh Bhuria's decision to snap ties with the BJP and form a separate party -- MP Vikas Jan Morcha. Mr. Bhuria made a formal announcement to leave the BJP and form a new party at a press conference in Jhabua on Tuesday.

When approached last evening, the president of the Madhya Pradesh unit of the BJP, Kailash Joshi, said neither he nor the party had received any communication from Mr. Bhuria so far. The State BJP office managers were non-committal.

Mr. Bhuria, who is a former Congress MP from Jhabua, was not given a ticket to contest the recent parliamentary election. The Jhabua parliamentary seat, which he once represented, is now represented by the Union Minister, Kantilal Bhuria. In Jhabua, a predominantly tribal belt, the BJP was turning into a divided house with the traditional BJP workers trying to share the scene with the Seva Bharati activists, who have been in the forefront of the Hindu Jagran Manch activities, on the one side and the Dilip Singh Bhuria loyalists on the other. However, in the last Assembly election, the BJP could win all the five Assembly seats from Jhabua.

One of these seats is represented in the Assembly by Mr. Bhuria's daughter, Nirmala Bhuria. Some BJP insiders said Mr. Bhuria's disenchantment with the BJP perhaps stems from the non-inclusion of his daughter in the just expanded State Cabinet.

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