Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Monday asserted that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is busy replacing its “non-performing” chief ministers and said there are more who must be replaced.
His comments came on the day when Bhupendra Patel assumed the Gujarat CM chair after Vijay Rupani made a shock resignation from the post.
Taking to his official Twitter handle, Chidambaram said, “The BJP is busy replacing its non-performing Chief Ministers. When did the BJP leadership realize they were non-performing CMs?”
“The people of the state concerned knew “The people of the state concerned knew
In Gujarat, with Assembly polls scheduled in December 2022, the BJP is banking on Patel, a Patidar, for poll victory. In the 2017 Assembly elections, BJP won 99 of the 182 seats and Congress got 77.
The Patidars are a dominant caste in Gujarat with a sizeable control over the electoral votes and dominate the political economy with a stronghold over education, realty and cooperative sectors.
Patel’s elevation – he is the first from the Patidar sub-group to be chief minister – is key to BJP’s plans to woo the Kadva Patidar community, which some political observers feel, has drifted away from the party.
