Lucknow: After a lot of hue and cry over the ‘disappearance’Â of Congress Vice President and Member of Parliament from Amethi, Rahul Gandhi, and BJP MP from Jhansi Uma Bharti, another BJP Lok Sabha member Dr Murli Manohar Joshi has been missing, if the posters in the industrial city of Uttar Pradesh are to be believed.
The locals of Kanpur have pasted posters on the walls of the city which said their MP had gone missing and anyone who gave information about his whereabouts would be suitably rewarded.
Dr Joshi may find the language on the posters even more offending, which further said that the electorate of Kanpur was ruining their decision to elect Dr Joshi.
The veteran BJP MP, who along with some other senior party leaders, was rather sidelined by the party after the last Lok Sabha polls, had to vacate his parliamentary constituency of Varanasi for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and contested from Kanpur where he defeated former UPA Minister Sri Prakash Jaiswal.
Similar posters were posted in Rahul’s constituency of Amethi and Uma Bharti’s constituency of Jhansi.
Coincidentally, Murli Manohar Joshi had to face the same embarrassment in Varanasi during his last tenure of LS member.
The UP unit of Bharatiya Janata Party however downplayed the controversy saying only handful of politically motivated people indulged in such gimmicks.
State BJP Spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak told NewsMobile that it was wrong to comment about Dr Joshi or any party MPs that he or she had been keeping away from their constituency for inordinate period.
On the direction of National Party Chief Amit Shah, all BJP MPs have opened their Public Relation offices in their respective constituencies, Pathak said.
Through these offices the MPs are in constant touch with the problems of their electorate therefore it is wrong to say a particular MP is missing.
Another senior party leader, on the condition of anonymity, said as a matter of fact no MP can satisfy all in his constituency as far as his physical presence is concerned. A MP gets about 1500 days of his tenure during which, he has to cover as many booth areas which in itself is an onerous task, he observed.