‘Emotional’ Chirag Patel joins BJP; likely to get ticket in bypoll, hints Paatil
Praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership, Paatil said he has linked the entire country through the thread of Ram Mandir.
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Former Congress MLA from Khambhat Chirag Patel joined BJP in February this year. (Photo Credit: X/@CRPaatil)Chirag Patel, who resigned as the Congress MLA from Khambhat constituency in December, has become the latest to jump ship to the BJP in Gujarat ahead of the general elections. On Sunday, Patel joined the saffron party along with his supporters in the presence of state party president C R Paatil.
Welcoming Patel into the partyfold, Paatil indicated that Patel would be BJP’s candidate in the Khambhat bypoll. “I will come again (to Khambhat) for the victory procession,” Paatil said.
Ahead of joining the party, an emotional Patel said the BJP was his gotra and said he had decided to join the party unconditionally only for the welfare of his constituency. Addressing Paatil, Patel said, “Sir, take special care of my Khambhat. When I had come seeking your blessings, I had said that, ‘I do not want anything. But think about my Khambhat.'”
Paatil promised him to resolve Khambhat’s water problem, he added.
Praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, Paatil said he has linked the entire country through the thread of Ram Mandir. He said that under such leadership and with the strength of the party workers, it is always possible to win all 182 seats of the Gujarat Assembly.
The BJP state chief added that his pledge to win all 182 seats could not be fulfilled in the assembly elections of 2022 as some seats were lost with small margins. He also called upon the workers to do the same in the next assembly elections.
“I had taken a pledge (in the 2022 assembly polls) to win all 182 seats in the state. When we will have the next assembly election, I may not be around as the party president, but you (party workers) should win all 182 seats,” Paatil said.
Patel is among the four MLAs who recently resigned from the Gujarat Assembly. He resigned in December. In the 2022 Assembly elections, Patel had defeated BJP’s Mayur Raval.
The other three MLAs who resigned include Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP’s) Bhupendra Bhayani, Congress’s C J Chavda and independent Dharmendrasinh Vaghela. Bhayani joined the BJP Saturday in Bhesan of Junagadh in the presence of Paatil.
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