Gaur slams BJP leaders for working in tandem

ALLAHABAD: "My next step would be to join Loktantra Bachao Abhiyaan of Anna Hazare to highlight the fact that only persons with clean and untarnished image should be allowed to contest elections.
This is because dhan bal, bahubal and parikrama (money, muscle and hobnobbing) have become the mantra of success for ticket seekers in Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) which is the reason why claims of committed and sincere workers have been sidelined," said former-state minister and four times MLA from city North assembly constituency, Dr N K S Gaur.
He was talking to newsmen on Thursday expressing his anger over the decision of the party to field Bara, MLA, Uday Bhan Karvariya from the above seat instead of him.
Slamming top leaders including Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, Kalraj Mishra and Ramapati Ram Tripathi for working in tandem to ensure omission of his name from the list of party candidates in return for pecuniary gains, Gaur said that these three alongwith the president of Kashi Prant division of the party, Devendra Singh Chauhan have connived to ruin his political career. This amounts to committing political dacoity which would not be tolerated at any cost, he fumed.
Vouching his candidature, the former minister said that his claim to the seat which he had been nurturing since 1991 stems from the fact that prior to 1991 when he won the elections from this constituency, party candidates always lost the elections.However since 1991 Gaur has won the seat four times in a row in 1991, 1993, 1997 and 2002.
Taking a dig at the party's official candidate from city North seat, Uday Bhan Karvariya he said that his support to the party and it's candidates were governed by his own priorities. This is the reason why he refused to support the party candidate from Phulpur parliamentary seat citing personal considerations including the presence of his brother as a candidate from Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP).This happened in the presence of senior party leader and national general secretary, Arun Jaitley.
Here it would be pertinent to mention that Gaur played a major role in approaching the high court to seek a stay on the decision of the state governor, Romesh Bhandari to swear Jagdambika Pal as state chief minister in 1999-2000 and removing from office the duly elected government of BJP headed by Kalyan Singh. Later on the supporters of Gaur including some party office bearers from city and district unit burnt an effigy of Kalraj Mishra and Dr M M Joshi and raised slogans against them.