NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, NEW DELHI, KOLKATA, SEP 11
Gujarat Main Opposition Congress, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and TMC on Saturday claimed that Vijay Rupani, who resigned as Gujarat chief minister earlier in the day, paid the heavy price for the BJP’s failures.
"માત્ર મુખ્યમંત્રી બદલવાથી સરકારની નિષ્ફળતાઓ નહીં છુપાય, જનતા આર્થિક પાયમાલીનો ભોગ બની રહી છે, ખેડૂતો આત્મહત્યા કરી રહ્યા છે, મોંઘું શિક્ષણ લીધા પછી પણ યુવાનો બેરોજગાર છે. ભાજપ સરકારની નિષ્ફળતા છુપાવવા માટે વિજયભાઈનો ભોગ લેવામાં આવ્યો છે."
– શ્રી @AmitChavdaINC pic.twitter.com/Nrh5FFOoeC— Gujarat Congress (@INCGujarat) September 11, 2021
The saffron party can not cover up the failure of its “remote-controlled” government by simply changing the chief minister, the Congress said.
“The party has made Vijay Rupani resign to hide the misrule and criminal negligence of the state government which caused three lakh deaths during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic,” state Congress chief Amit Chavda said.
Farmers are committing suicide in the state and the youth are unable to find jobs despite expensive education, he alleged.
Senior Congress leader Arjun Modhwadia said the BJP had no option other than changing the leadership in view of the deteriorating law and order situation.
The “remote control” of the goverment remains in Delhi and in the hands of state BJP chief C R Paatil, he said, adding that both the “remote control operators” have been a failure.
Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly Paresh Dhanani said the Rupani government was being run through remote control, but for inflation, unemployment, corruption and COVID-19 pandemic, “only (Prime Minister) Narendra bhai (Modi) and (Union home minister) Amit Shah are directly responsible.
“The resignation of CM Rupani has made it clear that the BJP has been unsuccessful in running the government,” said another Congress leader Hardik Patel. “The real change will come after the state Assembly elections next year when the public will throw the BJP out of power,” he said.
The Indian Youth Congress said in a tweet in Hindi, “In the election states, people have made up their mind to change the BJP government, but they are constantly changing the Chief Minister to mislead the people. No matter how many Chief Ministers they change, the people have made up their mind to change the BJP itself!”
AAP breaches BJP’s citadel
“AAP enters Uttrakhand, presents a robust and effective opposition to ruling BJP. BJP was compelled to remove its CM. AAP breaches BJP’s citadel, wins 27 seats in Surat, captures the space of opposition in Gujarat dislodging ineffective Congress. BJP forced to remove its CM,” AAP leader Raghav Chadha said in a tweet.
The AAP has made inroads in Gujarat politics, winning 27 seats in the Surat Municipal Corporation in February. While the BJP retained power by winning 93 seats in the 120-seat SMC, the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP won the remaining 27 seats. The Congress, which had won 36 seats in SMC last time, was reduced to zero seats.
Gujarat president of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Gopal Italia said it is BJP’s “tradition” to change chief ministers and claimed it was the “moral pressure created by AAP” in the state which resulted in Rupani’s resignation.
“It is the tradition of the BJP to change chief ministers. After the earthquake in 2001, then chief minister Keshubhai Patel was changed. Then Anandiben Patel was replaced during Patidar quota agitation which started in 2015. Now Vijay Rupani. The reason behind changing the faces in Gujarat by the BJP leaders is that they are power-hungry, and they don’t want to lose their power in the state,” he said.
Independent MLA Jignesh Mevani took a dim view of Rupani’s tenure, blaming him for the alleged Covid mess in the state.
“People of Gujarat would have appreciated had he resigned for his monumental mismanagement of the Covid crisis,” Mevani said.
The Trinamool Congress on Saturday alleged that Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani was “made a scapegoat” and his resignation was due to “intense infighting” within the BJP unit in the western state.
“There has been misgovernance in Gujarat under the BJP rule but that was not the factor behind the sudden stepping down of Rupani. He was made a scapegoat and his resignation was due to the intense squabble in the Gujarat unit of the saffron party.
“We wonder why Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not quitting despite the all-round failure of BJP to rule the country?” Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy told reporters.
