Remember Ratnaprabha? If you have already forgotten her, let us help you to recollect. She is the former bureaucrat who has contested as the BJP candidate from the Tirupati Lok Sabha bypoll. It appears, not just the voters, even the BJP leaders seem to have forgotten her.
Otherwise why would they not react and extend support to her when she filed a writ petition in the court demanding the cancellation of the polling for the Tirupati bypoll. Alleging several irregularities during the polling, she pointed out several fake voters had voted in favour of the YSRCP. She said the election court should direct the election commission to cancel the elections and order a repoll. Quite ironically, none of the top BJP leaders from either Tirupati or across the AP or at the national level have extended their support and spoke out in her favour. Even the national leaders are silent on the issue. It appears the local leaders are also not with us. Ratnaprabha's close acolytes say that the local leaders did not help her even during the campaign and she had to alone in several places without any local leader accompanying her.
However, several leaders from Tirupati and elsewhere in AP say that they came to know about Ratnaprabha filing a petition only through the media reports. She has not consulted any of us nor informed the party leadership in the state about filing a petition, they claimed. One thing that is becoming increasingly clear is that all is not well in the BJP.
Otherwise why would they not react and extend support to her when she filed a writ petition in the court demanding the cancellation of the polling for the Tirupati bypoll. Alleging several irregularities during the polling, she pointed out several fake voters had voted in favour of the YSRCP. She said the election court should direct the election commission to cancel the elections and order a repoll. Quite ironically, none of the top BJP leaders from either Tirupati or across the AP or at the national level have extended their support and spoke out in her favour. Even the national leaders are silent on the issue. It appears the local leaders are also not with us. Ratnaprabha's close acolytes say that the local leaders did not help her even during the campaign and she had to alone in several places without any local leader accompanying her.
However, several leaders from Tirupati and elsewhere in AP say that they came to know about Ratnaprabha filing a petition only through the media reports. She has not consulted any of us nor informed the party leadership in the state about filing a petition, they claimed. One thing that is becoming increasingly clear is that all is not well in the BJP.