As Congress leaders in Punjab wash their dirty linen in public, the BJP is wracked by an internal revolt after replacing six district presidents in districts like Hoshiarpur, Faridkot, Khanna, Muktsar and Sangrur, soon after their appointments.Party spokesperson Vineet Joshi insisted “sab changa si, (all is well)”, but none other than party president Nitin Nabin on Saturday urgently summoned the recently appointed state president Kewal Dhillon and RSS state organisation secretary Manthri Srinivasulu to Delhi and told them to course-correct.With the PM making a new push for alliance with Shiromani Akali Dal, the sight of the Punjab BJP in revolt looked more and more like what was happening in the Congress.With elections on the anvil in the next six months, the leadership is clearly worried. Party insiders are questioning the process through which the new district-level appointments were made.The district presidents of Hoshiarpur, Sangrur, Khanna, Muktsar and Faridkot were removed. In Faridkot, around 10 party office-bearers, including a mandal president, resigned in protest.Sources said the problem occurred when Satish Poonia, a BJP Rajya Sabha MP seconded to undertake the Punjab revamp, asked the state organisation for a suggested new list of office-bearers. The list was sent by the state unit, but Delhi added and removed some names.When some workers who had cemented their place in the party over the years found their names missing, they kicked up a storm. The old guard was rattled by the move. Some refused to speak; others, including Hoshiarpur leader Tikshan Sud, held a press conference to make their resentment public.In Sangrur, party leader Maninder Kapial, among those replaced as district president, said, “I have been associated with the BJP for the past two decades. It’s sad that the old guard is being finished politically one by one. The present leadership wants to project only those who are big landlords and filthy rich,” he said.Sud said those who used to publicly abuse the BJP and its leaders were now being welcomed into the party and offered plum positions, while those who had been loyal foot soldiers, including having served a lifetime in the RSS, were being ignored.The trigger for the revolt came from Ludhiana—three out of five general secretaries are from Ludhiana alone, while seven out of 12 vice-presidents are rank outsiders.Dhillon and Srinivasulu have, meanwhile, tried to calm ruffled feathers. They said the Delhi meeting with party leaders focused on key issues relevant to Punjab—agriculture, youth, border security and urban development. In the coming days, strong teams would be formed at the level of every district, every mandal and every village, which would yield positive results in the upcoming elections, Dhillon said.