Gujarat confidential: Representing India

At the Diwali Snehmilan of the BJP successful Manjalpur assembly constituency earlier this week, the ongoing tug of warfare wrong the enactment came to the fore erstwhile again erstwhile 2 elected MLAs of the enactment had a spell astatine each different implicit the caller “membership drive” of the enactment that was held successful September. Addressing the gathering, Vadodara BJP’s elder astir MLA Yogesh Patel from Manjalpur said that it was “a substance of probe” however the Akota assembly constituency became the “highest scorer” successful the rank drive, eliciting a fitting effect from Akota MLA Chaitanya Desai, erstwhile his crook came to speak. While the leaders of the enactment unit, including metropolis president Vijay Shah and erstwhile two-term MP Ranjan Bhatt, joined the others successful large laughter astatine the speech betwixt the 2 MLAs, the incidental has not been taken lightly by the party, elder leaders said. At the event, Patel said, “It is simply a substance of probe however Akota AC got specified numbers successful the rank drive. Some of our (Manjalpur) numbers were added to their tally, it seems.” To this, Desai, portion speaking from the dais, told Patel, “It should beryllium a substance of probe and interest to you wherefore you were not capable to propulsion disconnected the numbers this time.”