Gurgram: A couple of days after posting about “some folks working parallel BJPs with blessings from above” in Ambarakantonment, Haryana, Minister of State Anil Vij deleted the phrase “Minister” from X’s profile identify in a tongue-shaking motion.
Vij, 72, holds the state’s electrical energy, transportation and labor portfolio and is the seventh time period MLA for Ambala Cantonment. He modified his profile identify from “Indian Minister Anil Vij Haryana” to “Indian Anil Vij Ambara Kant Haryana”.
He was contacted by Print on Thursday and stated he had eliminated the phrase “pastor” from his profile identify as a result of he needed his followers and viewers to know him as a person, Anil Vij, not Minister Anil Vij.
“Folks following me see my content material and amplify it as a result of I am not essentially with me. However those that join with me for my content material and for my folks will stick with me without end. I do not need to construct Anirvidi as a model and use the minister’s tag,” he defined.
Requested if his actions had deeper which means or if he was disillusioned together with his function as minister, Vij argued that deeper motives shouldn’t be created. “The one cause I eliminated the phrase minister from my profile is that I need to construct my profile as Anil Vij. There’s nothing extra.”
Nevertheless, six days in the past, on September 12, he issued an X publish claiming that Ambala Cantonment’s “parallel BJP” operator was hurting the get together by receiving “blessings from above.”
“In Ambala Cantonment, some persons are working the BJP in parallel with the blessings of the folks talked about above. I’ll write what we should always do within the remark field. The get together is affected by quite a lot of harm,” he wrote.
Requested about his publish, Vij stated it was self-evident and that some folks had posted feedback accordingly.
Nevertheless, sources near Vij stated his publish was associated to a September 11 assembly between former BJP treasurer Ashish Tayal and Haryana Prime Minister Nayab Singh Saini.
Sources stated Tayal was in help of Chitra Sarwara, a right away rival to impartial candidate Vij, in a parliamentary ballot. Salwara misplaced to VIJ with 7,277 votes.
As head of the economic delegation for the Ambala Cantt Industrial Space, Tayal met Saini at Chandigarh and introduced a memorandum on flood and drainage points.
After Vij’s September twelfth publish, Tayal informed native media that he was representing industrial issues and had no thought who the minister was concentrating on in his publish.
Jyoti Mishra, a political analyst and assistant professor of political science at Amity College in Mohali, spoke about Vij’s newest transfer.
“Vij is Haryana’s most senior BJP chief and has been elected Vidhan Sabha as much as a number of occasions. Nevertheless, he usually knowledgeable him that in his posts, statements and acts he felt that he was not given his deadlines by the get together,” she informed ThePrint.
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“Frank” Minister
Over his years of political profession, Vij is thought to be open reasonably than somebody used to controversy.
He’s believed to have been pushed apart for the reason that repositioning of BJP management in Haryana in March 2024 forward of the election of Lok Sabah. On the time, Nayab Saini was appointed because the industrial and changed Manohar Lal Khattar.
Vij was not led to the Cupboard in March 2024 after an exhibition of discomfort from the BJP Congress assembly the place Saini was elected chief in entrance of the Central Observer.
When he was lastly launched into the Haryana Cupboard after the parliamentary vote final October, Vij was given a portfolio of electrical energy and transportation that was clearly much less vital, as an alternative of the home and well being he had within the Khattar Cupboard.
In September 2024, Vij had acknowledged his intention to file a lawsuit towards the CM’s chairman in case the BJP got here to energy after the Haryana Congress vote.
Then in February this yr he was supplied a present trigger notification to take a swipe in Saini. “Since Nayab Saini turned a industrial, he is at all times flying inside him. Udang Hatra (helicopter). This isn’t simply my opinion, however the view of a lot of the MLA,” Vij stated.
He additionally informed the media in February that some folks tried to defeat him in parliamentary elections, and submitted written complaints towards them, together with authorities officers, workers or small get together leaders. He added that no motion was taken towards these folks, nor that nobody within the get together tried to inform him about it.
Earlier than all this, Vij had a collection of confrontations with the Prime Minister’s Workplace (CMO) from 2014 to March 2024, notably when Khattar was industrial within the second time period.
“When Manohar Lal Hattar resigned final March, Vij was seen with him from the morning of March twelfth, with the previous assembly with the governor to file his resignation.
(Edited by Nida Fatima Siddiqui)
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