jaipur the congress on friday accused bjp of forcing independent candidate ladulal pitliya to withdraw his nomination from the sahara assembly bypoll in bhilwara district the bjp rejected the chargepitliya wanted to be the bjp candidate from sahara but the party chose to nominate ratanlal jat from the seat the disgruntled leader turned rebel and filed papers as an independent candidate but withdrew these after high drama a day before the last day for withdrawing nominationscongress state president and education minister govind singh dotasra claimed that pitliya who has businesses in karnataka was forced by the bjp to withdraw his nomination the party that exhorts nationalism and morality threatened to destroy the business of pitliya and pressured his family to withdraw the nomination congress condemns this dotasra told reportershe added the bjp thinks it can add to its votes by such kind of goonda acts but it should know people do not support immoral acts even after forcing the withdrawal of nomination bjp will not be able to win from saharadotasra even tweeted a picture of pitliya being pulled away by a youth outside a building and commented that bjp feared losing sahara hence forced the independent candidate to withdraw the nomination pitliya could not be reached for a statement as his mobile phone remained switched off a letter and an audio message attributed to pitliya was doing rounds on social media but the authenticity of these could not be verifiedbjp state president satish poonia however countered the congress charge quoting dotasras tweet poonia tweeted govind ji the fear is visible in the statements of chief minister ashok gehlot who is threatening the voters your calculations seem to have gone wrong do not daydream relying on misuse of government machinery and capitalists dont fall in the trap for once see the fate of big leaders in your party