Vaghela reaches out to Congress

Former Gujarat leader minister Shankersinh Vaghela, who had surrender the Congress forward of the 2017 Rajya Sabha elections, has put out a video message pronouncing he’s prepared to go back to the party. The video he mentions what number of Congress leaders, who met him on the condolence meet for overdue Rajya Sabha MP Ahmed Patel, advised him to sign up for the party. Vaghela said that he’s prepared to “go back and forth to New Delhi” if party leaders, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, name upon him to come back to the nationwide capital, communicate and if want arises, sign up for the party with a view to defeat the BJP in any respect prices in Gujarat. Vaghela had surrender the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) after he was once got rid of as its Gujarat unit president closing yr after the Rajya Sabha elections. He runs an organisation known as the Praja Shakti Morcha. With the loss of life of Patel, who wielded immense energy within the Congress, and Congress’s longest-serving leader minister and veteran chief Madhavsinh Solanki, Vaghela in all probability sees room for a senior flesh presser like him within the grand outdated party.

Patidar mobilisation

That the Patidars are mobilising is obvious from the Unjha assembly of the Leuva and Kadva Patels held closing week. In Surat, the place the Patidar quota agitation led via Hardik Patel noticed the utmost mobilisation in 2015, the Tiranga Yatra of the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) was once now not accredited via the police at the Republic Day closing month. Quickly, a number of banners had sprung up in Patidar neighbourhoods pronouncing: “Ekaj mang, Varachha mange Sarkari school” (Varachha has a unmarried call for… a central authority school), and “Ladse NSUI, Jitse Vidhyarthi (NSUI will struggle and scholars will win)”. Congress had noticed most beneficial properties within the Surat Municipal Company elections held after the quota agitation, particularly within the Patidar ruled spaces. The party has 36 seats within the 116 robust BJP-dominated SMC of which 30 are Patidar corporators.