Gujarat Elections 2022: The Congress on Tuesday suffered a large jolt as its senior chief and 11-time MLA Mohansinh Rathwa give up the social gathering and joined the BJP. This comes simply weeks earlier than the elections in Gujarat, the place the Congress has not been in energy for the final 27 years.
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Rathwa, a outstanding tribal chief, at present represents the Chhota Udaipur constituency in central Gujarat. Within the final election, he noticed a really shut contest with BJP’s Jashubhai Rathwa however finally received by simply over 1,000 votes. In 2012 too, his victory margin was beneath 3,000 votes.
Leaders of some affect leaving the social gathering have change into an everyday phenomenon in Congress. Within the final election, the Congress had bettered its tally and received 77 of 182 seats. Nevertheless, after shedding the ballot and having no instructions from the central management, many leaders left the social gathering.
As of at the moment, the Congress has 62 MLAs – 15 down from what it had obtained after meeting elections in 2017.
Among the many key leaders who left the social gathering in these 5 years are Jitu Chaudhary, Pradyumnasinh Jadeja, J V Kakadiya, Akshay Patel, and Brijesh Merja, amongst others.
In Might this 12 months, Congress chief Hardik Patel, who shot to fame after main a large Patidar protest in opposition to the BJP in 2015, give up the Congress and raised severe questions on former social gathering chief Rahul Gandhi.
In his resignation letter, Patel, who was handpicked by Gandhi and made Gujarat’s working president, stated that the dearth of seriousness about points is a serious drawback with the Congress Occasion’s senior management.
“At any time when I met with the senior management, all the time felt that leaders have been not likely enthusiastic about listening to about issues regarding the individuals of Gujarat however have been extra engrossed on what messages that they had obtained on their cellular and different such trivial issues,” he had stated.
Hardik Patel additionally stated that the nation was on the lookout for options to points like Ram Mandir, Article 370, and the implementation of GST however Congress solely performed the function of a roadblock and was all the time solely obstructive.
Gujarat will go to polls in two phases – December 1 and 5.
