NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, AUG 9
Six BJP MLAs from Rajasthan who had arrived in Gujarat ahead of the crucial Assembly session in that state starting on August 14 left for an undisclosed location in the early hours of Sunday.
The Congress government in Rajasthan under Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is in strife after Deputy CM Sachin Pilot rebelled and was sacked from the post.
The six BJP MLAs had reached Somnath from Porbandar on Saturday evening, with one of them telling reporters that the Congress government in Rajasthan was “harassing” opposition MLAs and that they had come on a pilgrimage to Somnath to seek mental peace.
Speaking on the issue, Gir-Somnath BJP general secretary Mansingh Parmar said. “The MLAs left the guest-house by morning. I have no clue where they went. My responsibility was to receive them when they reached Somnath from Porbandar on Saturday, and get them to the guest-house. I had left after dinner. They were supposed to stay here for two days.”
The six MLAs, Nirmal Kumawat, Gopichand Meena, Jabbar Singh Sankhla, Dharamveer Mochi, Gopal Lal Sharma and Gurudeep Singh Shahpini, left between 2 am-3 am accompanied by local BJP leaders to an undisclosed location, guest-house sources said.
Kumawat had told reporters on Saturday that the Gehlot government lacked a majority in the Assembly and that “he is harassing and putting mental pressure on BJP MLAs using SOG (Special Operations Group) and departmental raids”
BJP to convene legislature party meet on Aug 11
Ahead of the Rajasthan assembly session on August 14, the BJP has convened its legislature party meet here on August 11.
Leader of Opposition Gulab Chand Kataria has written to all the legislators about the meeting.
The meeting of the BJP Legislature Party has been called at Hotel Crowne Plaza in Jaipur on August 11 at 4 pm, as per the letter.
The Rajasthan BJP earlier shifted its 18 MLAs to Gujarat ahead of the state assembly session.
While six of the MLAs left for Porbandar on Saturday, 12 other had left a day earlier for Ahmedabad amid suggestions that the BJP has started herding their MLAs to one place like the Congress did ahead of the crucial assembly session.
State BJP chief Satish Poonia, however, has rejected these suggestions.
