Kailash emerges as strong leader

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Kailash emerges as strong leader

Friday, 10 January 2020 | Girish Sharma | Bhopal

Would controversy's favourite child — Kailash Vijayvargiya stage a political comeback in Madhya Pradesh politics?

BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya is emerging stronger in Madhya Pradesh making many of his rivals within the State BJP sit up.

Vijayvargiya's objectionable statement that he would have burnt the city, if RSS meeting was not underway in Indore, created controversy around four days ago. After registration of an FIR against him and his supporters, who had staged dharna in front of the Indore Commissioner's rersidence further helped Kailash in emerging stronger.

After an FIR, a war of words between the senior BJP leader and minister of Kamal Nath government continued. However, the police did not make any arrests till date. On Tuesday, the police going through the video footages of dharna, decided to name BJP MLA Akash Vijayvargiya, son of Kailash. Kailash, not known to mince words, is seen as one taking on Kamal Nath and draw huge media attention.

Ironically, soon after the controversy erupted, former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was seen in defensive mode. Kailash left behind Chouhan in cornering the Kamal Nath government.

In past one year, since the Congress came to power, it was only Chouhan whohad been raising several issues in the State, despite the fact that the high command asking him repeatedly to show up in the national arena.

However, for past few months, Chouhan did not take up any important issue and following the guidelines of Central leadership. He had recently visited Assam creating awareness towards Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

On the contrary, Kailash Vijayvargiya, who had been in-charge general secretary of West Bengal remained out of Madhya Pradesh for long; even during the assembly elections held in November 2018, he remained out of the State. After a long time, when he was in hometown Indore, his followers told him that the State government was targeting houses and businesses of BJP leaders and workers, he decided to meet district Collector and the Commissioner. Since, they were not available in the office despite having intimated in advance, he got infuriated and staged dharna in front of Commissioner's residence. During dharna, he gave that controversial statement to media and made headlines in next day's newspapers in the country.

Now, the Kamal Nath government is mulling whether, Kailash Vijayvargiya be arrested or not.

Political grapevine is that if Kailash is arrested, he would emerge as a strong leader of the BJP in Madhya Pradrsh and chief ministerial candidate of the party in future. This would also help the BJP central leadership in shunting former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan from Madhya Pradesh politics.

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