BJP Mahila Morcha national VP and former Vadodara Mayor Dr Jyoti Pandya anguished at suspension
BJP Mahila Morcha national VP and former Vadodara Mayor
Dr Jyoti Pandya anguished at suspension
BJP Mahila Morcha national vice-president and former Vadodara Mayor Dr Jyoti Pandya reacts after being suspended by the party.
After BJP on Thursday suspended its Mahila Morcha national vice-president and former Vadodara Mayor
Dr Jyoti Pandya, minutes before she held a press conference amidst which she questioned the party’s “compulsion to repeat an inefficient and ineligible” candidate from the Vadodara Lok Sabha constituency for the third term.
Pandya also announced she was “parting ways” with the BJP as her “conscience did not allow” her to continue working in the party.
A senior party functionary, Pandya, was aspiring for a ticket from Vadodara, where Ranjan Bhatt is the sitting MP.
Expressing her anguish at the party’s decision to repeat Bhatt for a third term, Pandya, who also held the post of spokesperson of Central Gujarat Zone of the BJP, said, she has no grudge against any leader be it state president
C. R. Paatil or Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel. She considers PM Modi and Amit Shah her idols but her conscience poked her all night even after she tried to accept the decision of the party and felicitated Ranjanben with a scarf last evening to congratulate her for her nomination. She isn’t against anyone but if a woman candidate has to be fielded, why should it be someone who is not eligible to have a third term? What is the compulsion of the party to repeat Ranjan Bhatt?”
Adding further that, as a woman candidate, why not she? When she is eligible and have been in active public life for 30 years. She has held posts in the party for which travelled across the country, leaving her family aside. She has the BJP in her DNA and have not joined the party after contesting as an independent candidate at some point.
Without naming any local leaders, Pandya went on to say that she was “distressed” at the “lack of development” in the city and the alleged “diversion of resources”. “Look at Vadodara and then compare it with the development that Ahmedabad and Surat have seen… Just a few days ago, the Chief Minister was in Vadodara and spoke of development.
News Edit K.V.Raman
