Dropped Chhattisgarh's BJP MPs keep cards close to chest

The multi-channels analysis of assembly poll debacle had concluded that party workers were reluctant and did not work for the party candidates

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Members of Parliament (MPs) from Chhattisgarh are in a state of shock but wary of revealing the next move even as party leadership decides to drop them in the ensuing Lok Sabha elections.

Taking a lesson from the cadre’s moods in the assembly elections where it faced humiliating defeat, BJP leadership had decided to drop all the incumbent MPs in Chhattisgarh and field fresh faces. The party has bagged 10 out of 11 seats in 2014.

“Had the party not decided to drop sitting MPs, party workers would not have come out to work even