Patidar chief Hardik Patel on Sunday stated that Bhupendra Patel, who additionally belongs to his group, can be the BJP”s final chief minister in Gujarat because the folks of the state have determined to throw the saffron occasion out of energy at the very least for the subsequent 25 years.
Bhupendra Patel (59) was unanimously elected as BJP legislative occasion chief right here on Sunday, a day after Vijay Rupani resigned from the put up. Patel will probably be sworn in because the chief minister on Monday.
In an open letter addressed to the CM-designate, Hardik Patel, who’s Gujarat Congress”s working president, requested what he can obtain in a single 12 months (as Assembly polls are scheduled subsequent 12 months) that the BJP couldn’t within the final 25 years.
“BJP has given you this responsibility a few months before the elections to hide its failure, but what can you do in one year (Assembly election is due in Gujarat in December 2022) what your party could not do in 25 years for education, health, women, youth and farmers, for the most vulnerable sections of Gujarat?” he requested and stated this can be a query that the folks of Gujarat have posed earlier than him.
“The BJP has appointed in you its last chief minister, because the people of Gujarat have made up their mind to throw the anti-poor, anti-youth BJP out of power, at least for the next 25 years. Now time has come to change the entire government and not just the chief minister,” Hardik added.
Hardik Patel rose to prominence in 2015 on the again of the Patidar quota agitation. The protest spearheaded by him for reservation to the youths from his group in authorities jobs and academic establishments had rocked the state and adopted with the resignation of the then chief minister Anandiben Patel, who was later changed by Vijay Rupani over a 12 months forward of the 2017 Assembly polls.
In the identical means, Rupani tendered his resignation from the highest put up on Saturday greater than a 12 months forward of the 2022 state elections.
(PTI)