Former Gujarat PCC chief and MLA Arjun Modvadia resigns
Congress ahead of Rahul Gandhi's Nyay Yatra's entry into Gujarat, former Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) President and sitting MLA from Porbandar, Arjun Modvadia resigned from the party as well as his legislative position on Monday. Apart from him, former Rajula MLA and one of the strongest Ahir leader of Congress Ambarish Der too resigned from Congress.
Modvadia and Der are expected to join BJP on Tuesday. As a matter of fact, speaker of Gujarat Assembly Shankar Chaudhary had to fly down to Gandhinagar from Tharad in Banaskantha leaving a programme mid-way to accept Modvadia's resignation.
Congress responded with surprise while in the afternoon, incumbent GPCC President Shaktisinh Gohil told the media that Modvadia was active in organising Nyay Yatra in Dahod until Sunday evening, other senior leaders refused to accept possibility of Modvadia resigning until he actually put in his papers. Rahul Gandhi's yatra is scheduled to enter Gujarat on Thursday.
Speaking to media after resigning from the assembly, Modvadia recalled his long association with Congress since his student days and alleged that for quite sometime he was suffocating in Congress. Mincing no word, Modvadia said that the connection between people and the party has broken down and he had on several occasion raised these issues with the party high command albeit with no tangible result.
Further, he underlined Congress's declining the invitation for Ram Mandir consecration ceremony, for which he had taken to social media airing his dissent
