Akhand Pratap Singh & Indrajeet Patel-interesting case studies

The cases of Indrajeet Patel and Akhand Pratap Singh during the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections respectively makes for interesting study.In both these, the corresponding parties(BJP and Congress ) scored muliple points in one shot.Indrajeet,a one time Arjun acolyte is the Congress candidate from Sidhi against Veena Singh (Arjun Singh's daughter who was denied ticket and is contesting as an independent). Unconfirmed reports say say that Arjun Singh had sought ticket for Veena Singh from Satna and Ajay Singh from Sidhi- the party denied both and instead gave the ticket to Indrajeet. In this scenario Patel's defeat is a foregone conclusion. Thus in this gambit Congress High Command has put Arjun Singh in his place(he has been a thorn in the flesh for a while), stymied his dynastic ambitions and cut his staunch supporter to size. A victory of sorts for the party managers at the cost of losing at most one seat,if a t all.
As for Akhand Pratap,a one time Congressman and later an Uma lieutenant rose to be a minister in the BJP regime. - a fact unpalatable to the cadre of BJP. Hence he never quite became an insider;and in the post Uma scenario his position became even more tenous ; on top of it, he tried to take on the some of the biggest political managers of BJP.Consequently,he had to face a triple whammy - Akhand was made to stand against Uma Bha rti while the pa rty workers were informally directed to vote for Yadvendra Singh, the Congress candidate. As a result, Akhand lost his deposit while Uma Bharti was defeated thus killing two birds in one stone. Subsequently, Akhand was unceremoniusly expelled from the party.A case study in the craft of politics.