Anxious ticket seekers besiege BJP leadership for Lok Sabha nomination

The problem is particularly acute in Uttarakhand where at least out of five BJP MPs - General BC Khanduri and BS Koshiyari - have said they will not contest the 2019 elections

As election fever rises, so does the anxiety of ticket seekers. The Bharatiya Janata Party  (BJP) President Amit Shah was in hospital suffering from flu but even here, people wanting to press their claims for a BJP nomination in the Lok Sabha simply wouldn’t stop calling on him. The BJP is facing a funny kind of problem: Following announcements by a handful of its senior leaders that they would not fight the Lok Sabha elections, the party is besieged with people wanting to become their replacements. The problem is particularly acute in Uttarakhand where at least out of five BJP