Reluctance of several top leaders of the State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to enter the fray in Telangana has left the Central leaders in a dilemma.
A number of factors are being cited for the “strategic retreat” of these leaders, many of them holding positions in the All India BJP and State units. The BJP Central Election Committee had earlier decided that all the seniors, whether MPs or legislators, will have to mandatorily contest the Assembly elections.
But, the directive seems to have been ignored by them for a variety of reasons. “Some of them are scared to face the elections as they are worried about the winning prospects,” is what a top leader of the State unit revealed.