New Delhi: BJP’s Vjay Rupani, during a shock move, resigned as Chief Minister of Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state, with just a year to travel for the state polls.
“To Further develop the state with new energy and power, I even have decided to resign as Chief Minister,” Mr Rupani told presspersons, adding he will still work for the party.
Independent MLA Jignesh Mevani was less charitable in his assessment of the Chief Minister, blaming him for the Covid mismanagement.
“People of Gujarat would have appreciated had Mr. Rupani resigned for his monumental mismanagement of Covid crisis,” said Mr Mevani posted on Twitter.
In May, the state was accused of underreporting the Covid deaths. In July, a video from a well known Gujarat government-run hospital showed ants crawling on the face of a paralysed Covid patient prompting a search . an equivalent month, the Vijay Rupani-led government was pulled up by the Supreme Court for bringing a notification to reverse the highest court’s order ablaze safety norms in Covid hospitals.
“This resignation comes purely to require care of electoral arithmetic keeping 2022 assembly polls in mind,” the MLA suggested.
Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani resigns:
People of Gujarat would have appreciated had Mr. Rupani resigned for his monumental mismanagement of Covid crisis.
This resignation comes purely to
take care of electoral arithmetic keeping 2022 assembly polls in mind.
Mr Rupani resigned after the party’s central leadership expressed dissatisfaction together with his performance, said sources. This, sources add, is “course correction” by a BJP wanting to change things around if it feels unsure in its state leadership.
Karnataka, Uttarakhand are the newest examples where the BJP changed its chief Ministers.
The Congress and therefore the Aam Aadmi Party, principal opposition parties within the state, have yet to reply .
Mr Rupani, 65, was sworn certain a second term in December 2017 ahead of Prime Minister Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and over a dozen other BJP chief ministers. The assembly polls were to require place within the western state late next year.
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