Bjp Sidelines Shatrughan Sinha In Up Campaign

Apart from frontline leaders like Atal Behari Vajpayee and L K Advani, the party's election managers say Sinha was the most in demand from the state units during the recent Lok Sabha elections.

But for the forthcoming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Lucknow-based state leadership has not passed on the request to the central office to draw up Sinha's tour programme.

In view of the efforts of his detractors, Sinha has decided not to participate in the party's election campaign, sources close to him said.

During the build-up to the Lok Sabha election, senior state leaders perceived themselves as having been overshadowed by Sinha. This time no request has been forwarded to the central office even though candidates have been personally calling him up and asking him to come over to their constituencies