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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) councillor R. Sreelekha courted contention connected Monday aft she decided to enactment distant from Thiruvananthapuram BJP councillors’ bid travel to Delhi to enactment successful a reception to beryllium accorded to them by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The BJP councillors of the Corporation, accompanied by State and territory leaders of the party, embarked connected the travel successful the Kerala Express from the Central Railway Station present connected Monday.
Ms. Sreelekha’s determination to not beryllium a portion of the travel was wide perceived arsenic an look of displeasure connected her part. She had earlier said that the enactment had fielded her arsenic a campaigner successful the section assemblage elections aft promising the mayoral station to her. Her aboriginal departure from the assembly hallway during the swearing-in of the Mayor arsenic good arsenic her staying enactment astatine a country of the signifier erstwhile the remainder of the BJP leaders went to greet Mr. Modi during his sojourn to the capital, had besides fuelled speculations astir her equations with the party.
Later successful the day, Ms. Sreelekha claimed successful a video posted connected her societal media pages that the media is attempting to “create fume without fire”. She said that she had informed the enactment that she could not instrumentality up the agelong travel owed to assorted reasons.
“At this age, it is hard for maine to instrumentality specified a agelong bid journey. The enactment had offered maine formation tickets, but I refused the connection arsenic I don’t privation the enactment to walk truthful overmuch for me. Staying distant for 5 days is hard arsenic I besides person to instrumentality attraction of my mother,” she said.
On the speculations astir her plans to contention the upcoming Assembly elections, she said that she is not funny successful the same, arsenic she is of the beardown sentiment that a idiosyncratic who has won an predetermination should not contention successful immoderate different level for the adjacent 5 years.
