BJP spokesperson expelled for speaking against party’s treatment of Satya Pal Malik, Jagdeep Dhankhar
In the order issued Friday, Onkar Singh Lakhawat, chairperson of BJP’s state disciplinary committee said that Janu failed to justify his actions in response to a show-cause notice issued on June 20, sealing his expulsion for 6 years.
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BJP spokesperson Krishna Kumar Janu (left). (Photo: X/@Krishan89241534)The BJP on Friday expelled party spokesperson Krishna Kumar Janu following his comments on the BJP government and its “disdain” for the late Satya Pal Malik.
Officially, however, Janu was expelled over his June comments objecting to Harshini Kulhari’s appointment as BJP’s Jhunjhunu district president. In the order issued Friday, Onkar Singh Lakhawat, chairperson of BJP’s state disciplinary committee said that Janu failed to justify his actions in response to a show-cause notice issued on June 20, sealing his expulsion for 6 years.
In a video which went viral over the last couple of days, Janu is heard criticising BJP’s Jat leaders over the alleged humiliating treatment of former Governor Malik and the unceremonious exit of Jagdeep Dhankhar as Vice President – both of whom are Jats.
In the video, Janu says that seeing the last rites of the former Governor who was also party’s former national vice president, and the government’s tiraskar (disdain) towards him has deeply hurt him and that he wishes to ask questions from Jats working in the party, be it MPs, MLAs or other post holders.
He asked them how can they think that what happened with Malik won’t happen with them, and “the manner in which the disdain was exemplified, it cannot be justified”.
He said the party’s current leadership is responsible for pushing veteran leaders like L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Yashwant Sinha, Praveen Togadia, Sanjay Joshi, and Vasundhara Raje to the sidelines and has now turned former Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan into a puppet.
He said “what the BJP is doing with mass leaders who are popular on the ground is very sad. The party is going in the wrong direction through all this. I don’t understand why the people are quiet.”
He said that BJP’s Jat leaders come from a community which speaks on the visangati (inconsistencies) within the Sanatan and in the past, they have sided with Guru Nanak Dev, Jambhoji Maharaj and Dayanand Saraswati, then why are they hesitating to speak up. “The humiliation which was witnessed during the last rites of Satya Pal Malik – no state funeral was given to someone who held a Constitutional post – is a sign that the government is prejudiced and behaving in this manner out of fear,” Janu said, adding that the one who compromises with his principles on account of fear is not a Jat.
He also raised questions on Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar’s unusual departure, saying that there was no farewell speech or a farewell party for him and that “it is Jat’s sanskar (culture) to clash with an arrogant government” while criticising the Jats within the BJP and urging them to speak out against the wrongs.
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