J P Nadda rules out return to state politics

BJP general secretary, J P Nadda today ruled out his return to state politics or joining the Union Cabinet if the party came to power at the Centre.
Leading the "Run for unity" here, Nadda said he had risen from the grassroots working in ABVP and Yuva Morcha and felt that some people must dedicate themselves to the organisation instead of running after posts.
He said the process for selection of candidates for Lok Sabha polls has started and reports would be given to the party leadership at a meeting with in-charges of Chandigarh, Punjab, Himachal and Jammu and Kashmir which would begin tomorrow and run till December 21.

Nadda said the former chief minister Shanta Kumar was a formidable candidate from Kangra Lok Sabha seat while other BJP leaders Anurag Thakur and Varinder Kashyap, sitting MPs from Hamirpur and Shimla, have been falsely implicated in cases due to political vendetta.
Accusing the Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh of indulging in political victimisation, he said it would not work in the long run.
He said Singh was denouncing and degrading the democratic institutions which did not augur well for democracy.
On Aam Adami Party's spectacular success in Delhi assembly polls, Nadda said that it would have no impact on Lok Sabha polls.