Gujarat Congress chief and Leader of Opposition resign after ballot debacle

Taking accountability for the embarrassing defeat within the just lately concluded native physique polls in Gujarat, Gujarat Congress chief Amit Chavda and Leader of Opposition Paresh Dhanani Gujarat Congress chief Amit Chavda and Leader of Opposition Paresh Dhanani have tendered their resignations. However, each will proceed on their put up till the occasion prime management finds their appropriate replacements.
The occasion has accepted the resignation of the 2 leaders and requested them to proceed until the top of March, because the state meeting session is underway, a report printed in DeshGujarat mentioned.
Chavda had expressed shock on the outcomes of the native physique polls, claiming that the occasion was receiving an excellent response from the folks. He even blamed the EVMs for the Congress occasion’s ballot debacle.
“The election results are totally opposite to what our expectations were. We had received good responses from people during our campaigning but the results do not reflect it. People have raised doubts on EVMs and all these things should be probed,” Chavda mentioned.
In December 2019, the Congress occasion had indicated that there could be an imminent change within the occasion management. However, with the native physique polls slated to happen in late February, the choice to herald new management was shelved till after the native elections. Following Congress’ disastrous efficiency within the native physique elections and the following resignation of the Gujarat Congress occasion chief, a change within the guard is inevitable.
Earlier final week, Gujarat Congress working President Hardik Patel expressed his displeasure over the functioning of the occasion. He had then alleged that the Congress occasion was not utilizing him to his potential. The Patidar chief claimed Congress had not organised a single public assembly for him forward of the native physique elections.
Congress worn out as BJP sweeps native physique polls in Gujarat
The disaster dealing with the Congress occasion precipitated within the wake of the Gujarat native physique polls. The BJP has received all 31 seats, a majority of 81 municipalities, and over 200 of the 230 talukas that had gone to the polls on February 28. The emphatic victory got here per week after the saffron occasion swept all six municipal companies.
This is in stark distinction to the 2015 native physique polls when Congress had made spectacular good points on the again of the Patidar agitation that had roiled the state. The BJP had then confronted an intensive pasting in 24 of the 31 district panchayats, together with dropping 138 of the whole 228 taluka panchayats. The occasion had, nevertheless, maintained its semi-urban base intact by profitable 45 of the 57 municipalities.
The Congress occasion, then again, might win just one,768 seats, three municipalities and some taluka panchayat our bodies. It did not open its account in any district panchayat.