BJP MLA says he has 100% faith in party leadership

Gorakhpur: A day after he was served a show-cause notice by the state BJP on charges of maligning the image of party through his social media posts, the Gorakhpur Sadar MLA, Radha Mohan Das Agarwal on Friday said he had full faith in the party organisation which has its internal democracy alive. Das said that he spent his entire life in the BJP and would continue to do so.
Speaking to TOI, Das said: “Disciplinary action is very important for strengthening the party and to improve its image and it is a part of the internal democracy of our party which is still alive. I have got a notice from the party and I will give a reply based on facts. I have 100% faith in the impartial actions of our party leadership.”
Earlier in the day, however, Das took to Facebook while terming himself 'Arjun’ who knew the art of shattering any sort of `chakravyuh’. “Hum Abhimanyu Nahi…Arjun hain..Chakravyuh mein ghusna jante hain toh todna bhi jaante hain (I am not Abhimanyu but Arjuna who knows how to enter a maze and break it),” he wrote. Das, a four time MLA, further wrote on the social media that he would stand as a rock and those hit him would die. “Prabal Virodh ke sagar mein hum sudrahd chhattan banenge..Jo aakey takrayenge aapni apni maut marenge,” he wrote, adding that he was a MLA of the party and a swayamsewak of RSS. “I am not against BJP and BJP is not against me,” he said.
Making an indirect reference to election of Ravi Kishan from Gorakhpur in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Das wrote: “Ravi Kishan ji ki murti gadhne mein Gilhari ki tarah humari bhi bhumika hai…Murtikar kabhi apni sthapit Murti nahi todta.” Kishan has reportedly been against Das who has been in the eye of storm after he raked up the issue of an unplanned construction of road in his assembly constituency by a PWD engineer KK Singh leading to water logging in parts of residential colonies.
UP BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh refused to comment on the fresh social media post of Das. He, however, maintained that the party has given a week's time to the MLA to respond. “We hope he comes up with a suitable explanation,” he told TOI. On Thursday a telephonic conversation of the MLA with a BJP worker had also gone viral in which the worker was asking him to help a family as their daughters were harassed by a neighbour. He also made a complaint about the police station in-charge who was taking side of the neighbour of a certain caste.