Nagender Singh
Shimla, July 28
Chetan Bragta, son of former BJP senior leader and minister Narendra Bragta is back in the party after BJP revoked his expulsion today.
This was announced by the Himachal Pradesh BJP president Suresh Kashyap at Deep Kamal in party office in Shimla today afternoon.
Fearing the Congress poaching the BJP leaders in Himachal Pradesh, the party today made a decision to counter political moves of rival party in the state and strength the organisation for the coming assembly elections probably to be held in November this year.
Chetan Bragta has a substantial following in the Jubbal and Kotkhai constituency with a rich political legacy of his father Narendra Bragta who represented this segment twice in the past. Narendra Bragta died last year in PGI Chandigarh ailing from a lung disease.
The BJP had expelled Chetan Bragta in October last from the organisation after he decided to contest from the Jubbal-Kotkhai contituency following denial of ticket by the party at last moment.
He had secured 23,344 votes against the winning Congress candidate Rohit Thakur who polled 29,447 in the contituency while the BJP candidate Neelam Saraik got meagre 2476 votes, forfeiting her security.
Chetan Bragta’s wide popularity among the masses in his Jubbal-Kotkhai contituency was the sole reason for the otherwise stuburb BJP to revoke his expulsion.
With his homecoming in the BJP, the forthcoming assembly election context in Jubbal-Kotkhai is going to be very competitive for both BJP and Congress Party having popular faces in the field.
