NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, JUNE 5
Ahead of the crucial Rajya Sabha polls in Gujarat on June 19, Congress MLA Brijesh Merja on Friday resigned from the assembly membership as well as from the Congress.
The Assembly secretariat confirmed that Speaker Rajendra Trivedi has accepted the resignation of Merja, who was elected from the Morbi seat.
He has become the third Congress legislator to quit in the last three days.
Before quitting as a legislator, Merja also resigned from the primary membership of the Congress.
Two other Congress MLAs, Akshay Patel and Jitu Chaudhary, resigned on Wednesday evening, Trivedi had said on Thursday.
Merja is the eight Congress MLA to quit the assembly membership since March.
Isn’t Gujarat govt only one in world to abandon people amid COVID-19 outbreak: Patel
Isn’t Gujarat government the only one in the world where:
1) Government has abandoned people in the middle of a global pandemic?
2) Refused to fund train fare for poor migrants?
3) But leaves no stone unturned to fund horse-trading activities for a Rajya Sabha election ?
— Ahmed Patel Memorial (@ahmedpatel) June 4, 2020
Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel hit out at the BJP dispensation in Gujarat over the rapid spread of coronavirus in the state on Thursday and wondered if it was the only government in the world that had abandoned people in the middle of a global pandemic.
Gujarat reported 492 fresh coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours – a single-day record – taking the tally in the state to 18,601, while 33 more patients succumbed to the infection, according to the state health department.
“Isn’t Gujarat government the only one in the world where: 1) Government has abandoned people in the middle of a global pandemic? 2) Refused to fund train fare for poor migrants? 3) But leaves no stone unturned to fund horse-trading activities for a Rajya Sabha election?” Patel wrote on Twitter.
