Navsari Elections: BJP expels 9 insurgent leaders contesting as independents

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday suspended 9 insurgent leaders, who’re contesting as unbiased candidates within the February 28 panchayat and taluka panchayat elections in Navsari district, from the social gathering for 3 years.
Party’s Navsari unit president Bhuralal Shah mentioned after the names of the BJP candidates have been declared for the taluka panchayat and district panchayat elections, some social gathering leaders had expressed unhappiness.
“We tried to convince them. After the process for filing forms for the taluka panchayat and district panchayat elections ended, we found that some of our leaders and workers were contesting as independent candidates. We suspended them from the party for three years. We wanted to set up an example so that in the future nobody would take such a step,” Shah mentioned.

The suspended leaders embody Bhupat Laljibhai Dudhat (former BJP councillor of Navsari Nagar Palika), Chhanabhai Sukhabhai Jogi (former sarpanch of Kabilpore in Navsari district), Neetaben Vinodbhai Surve (BJP’s organisation secretary from Gandevi city), Riyaz Abubakar Mujawar (BJP minority cell chief from Gandevi city), social gathering leaders Arvind Vesta Patel (from Chikhli taluka), and Chandrakant Bhikhubnhai Patel, Alpesh Amratlal Patel, Bhavanbhai Kesrabhai Patel, and Manharbhai Kantibhai Patel — all from Gandevi taluka.

A insurgent chief, who’s contesting as an unbiased candidate however didn’t want to be named, mentioned, “We have put our blood and sweat for the party and worked for its victory in the local body polls and when we demanded ticket, the party’s higher-ups denied the same and gave different excuses. Now, we have decided to contest as independent candidates as our supporters are also angry with the party.”