On Tuesday, Haryana BJP president Mohan Lal Badoli announced a state-level screening committee comprising BJP Parliamentary Board member Sudha Yadav, state minister Krishan Bedi, and former state ministers Kanwar Pal Gurjar and Subhash Sudha. AdvertisementAt the district level, the state BJP leadership formed similar panels comprising three or four members including the district party president and district in-charge. A senior BJP leader said the party’s primary concern is to “preserve its ideological character”. A fine balance is needed,” the BJP leader said. Ahead of the October 2024 Assembly elections, former Lok Sabha MP and Dalit leader Ashok Tanwar and former Haryana minister Karan Dev Kamboj also left the BJP for Congress.