NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, MAY 9
Former Gujarat MLA and Congress leader Vasant Bhatol on Monday joined the BJP at the party’s ‘Kamalam’ headquarters in Gandhinagar.
આ પ્રસંગે પ્રદેશ મહામંત્રી શ્રી @rajnipatel_mla , શ્રી @VinodChavdaBJP , શ્રી @pradipsinhbjp , પ્રદેશ ઉપાધ્યક્ષ શ્રી @jkavadiya , સાંસદ શ્રી @PatelParbatbhai , બનાસ ડેરીના ચેરમેન શ્રી @ChaudhryShankar સહિત પ્રદેશ હોદ્દેદારો અને મોટી સંખ્યામાં કાર્યકર્તાઓ ઉપસ્થિત રહ્યાં. pic.twitter.com/NMtn68TiOJ
— BJP Gujarat (@BJP4Gujarat) May 9, 2022
Bhatol had left the BJP ahead of the general elections in April 2019 and joined the Congress after the opposition party had given his father Parthi Bhatol a ticket to contest Lok Sabha polls from Banaskantha.
Bhatol had won the bypoll to Danta Assembly seat in Banaskantha in 2009 as a BJP candidate.
અમદાવાદ જિલ્લાના ભુવાલડી ખાતે મુખ્યમંત્રી શ્રી @Bhupendrapbjp , પ્રદેશ અધ્યક્ષ શ્રી @CRPaatil અને કેન્દ્રીય રાજ્યમંત્રી શ્રી @devusinh ની વિશેષ ઉપસ્થિતિમાં સમસ્ત ઠાકોર સમાજનો 'ભવ્ય સમૂહ લગ્નોત્સવ' યોજાયો. pic.twitter.com/B4VthnG2AX
— BJP Gujarat (@BJP4Gujarat) May 9, 2022
Bhatol, who was welcomed back to the party by Gujarat BJP chief CR Paatil, said he had made a mistake by joining the Congress and claimed he was correcting it by coming back to the “mother organisation”.
Assembly polls are likely to be held in Gujarat in December this year, though Bhatol claimed he had rejoined the BJP without any pre-condition or expectation of a ticket.
આજરોજ પ્રદેશ કાર્યાલય 'શ્રી કમલમ્' ખાતે અખિલ ગુજરાત પ્રજાપતિ સંઘ દ્વારા પ્રદેશ અધ્યક્ષ શ્રી @CRPaatil નું સન્માન કરવામાં આવ્યું.
આ પ્રસંગે પ્રદેશ મહામંત્રી શ્રી @rajnipatel_mla , શ્રી @pradipsinhbjp સહિત સમગ્ર ગુજરાતમાંથી પધારેલા પ્રજાપતિ સમાજના આગેવાનો ઉપસ્થિત રહ્યાં. pic.twitter.com/kNuMMgEkWY
— BJP Gujarat (@BJP4Gujarat) May 9, 2022
Shweta Brahmbhatt also quits party
Gujarat Congress leader Shweta Brahmbhatt, who had met Prime Minister Narendra Modi last month at Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar during the latter’s visit here, on Monday resigned from the opposition party citing groupism and lack of vision.
In her resignation letter, which was posted on her Facebook page and addressed to party president Sonia Gandhi, 38-year-old Brahmbhatt said despite sending numerous emails to Rahul Gandhi on how to bring change and strengthen the party, the situation remained unchanged on the ground in Gujarat.
“Instead of bringing change, people who had harmed the party openly in the elections were promoted. There were people who used to indulge in petty politics whenever the party had assigned me some work. They are doing it because the local leadership has given a free pass to such people in the party,” Brahmbhatt alleged.
She also claimed some local Congress leaders, including women, had used derogatory language for her after she met the PM last month.
“If the party is not ready to listen to the views of young leaders like us, then what is the use of remaining in the party? There is complete lack of vision and zeal to win elections. Groupism is also rampant in the party,” she told reporters.
During Modi’s Gujarat visit last month, Brahmbhatt and her father Narendra Brahmbhatt, a Congressman, had met the PM at Raj Bhavan. She had, however, told reporters at the time the visit was a “courtesy call” and had denied she intended to join the ruling BJP.
Bhrambhatt, who was an investment banker and also did a course from IIM Bangalore, had hit the headlines after she was given a Congress ticket from Maninagar in the 2017 Assembly polls.
PM Modi had represented Maninagar Assembly seat for three terms when he was Gujarat chief minister.
Brahmbhatt eventually lost to BJP’s Suresh Patel in the 2017 polls.
500 doctors join BJP
Bharatiya Janata Party has been ruling Gujarat for nearly three decades and on Sunday BJP received a huge boost ahead of the Assembly polls as about 500 doctors joined the party.
About 500 doctors joined the BJP in the presence of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and party state chief CR Paatil in Gandhinagar.
