Tag: Raju Parmar

  • Former Congress leaders Naresh Raval, Raju Parmar sign up for BJP forward of Gujarat polls

    Through PTI

    GANDHINAGAR: Just about two weeks after resigning from the Congress, former Gujarat minister Naresh Raval and previous Rajya Sabha member Raju Parmar joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Birthday party (BJP) right here on Wednesday, months forward of the state Meeting polls.

    Each the leaders have been related to Congress for many years.

    State BJP leader C R Paatil welcomed them into the celebration by way of providing them saffron scarves and caps.

    Numerous their supporters additionally joined the ruling celebration.

    Parmar was once Congress’s Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat for 3 phrases – between 1988 and 2006.

    A outstanding chief from the Dalit group, he had additionally served as a member of the Nationwide Committee for SC/ST.

    Raval, a three-term MLA representing Vijapur Meeting seat in Mehsana, had served because the minister of state for house and trade minister within the then Congress govt in Gujarat.

    He had received the Meeting elections in 1985, 1990 and 1998.

    The Meeting elections are due by way of the top of this 12 months.

    GANDHINAGAR: Just about two weeks after resigning from the Congress, former Gujarat minister Naresh Raval and previous Rajya Sabha member Raju Parmar joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Birthday party (BJP) right here on Wednesday, months forward of the state Meeting polls.

    Each the leaders have been related to Congress for many years.

    State BJP leader C R Paatil welcomed them into the celebration by way of providing them saffron scarves and caps.

    Numerous their supporters additionally joined the ruling celebration.

    Parmar was once Congress’s Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat for 3 phrases – between 1988 and 2006.

    A outstanding chief from the Dalit group, he had additionally served as a member of the Nationwide Committee for SC/ST.

    Raval, a three-term MLA representing Vijapur Meeting seat in Mehsana, had served because the minister of state for house and trade minister within the then Congress govt in Gujarat.

    He had received the Meeting elections in 1985, 1990 and 1998.

    The Meeting elections are due by way of the top of this 12 months.

  • Gujarat: Two netas give up Congress over Mevani’s rising stature; to sign up for BJP

    By means of Specific Information Carrier

    AHMEDABAD: Unsatisfied with the rising stature of Dalit activist Jignesh Mevani throughout the Congress, the birthday celebration’s senior SC chief and previous Rajya Sabha member Raju Parmar has introduced that he’s quitting the birthday celebration along side former house minister and three-term MLA Naresh Raval. Each are most probably to sign up for the BJP.

    The prominence being accorded to Mevani through the top command, particularly Rahul Gandhi, has unsettled reasonably a couple of leaders within the Gujarat Congress. Parmar claimed that Mevani was once being promoted even supposing he hadn’t achieved a lot for the birthday celebration up to now.

    Any other senior SC chief of the Congress instructed this newspaper that Mevani was once prone to be propped up because the birthday celebration’s Dalit face nationally. The chief mentioned that Mevani’s affiliation with the birthday celebration had now not yielded any sure effects, but he was once made operating president, even supposing he didn’t have any “reference to the grassroots”.

    Mevani was once elected from Vadgam meeting constituency in 2017 as an ‘Unbiased’ can didate after the Congress vacated the seat for him.

    “I and Raju Parmar have determined to renounce from Congress. We will be able to sign up for BJP at a serve as on August 17. A lot of our supporters will even sign up for the BJP on that day,” Raval instructed newshounds in Gandhinagar.

    Parmar, a distinguished Dalit chief in Gujarat Congress, showed that he’ll be leaving the birthday celebration within the subsequent two days.

    He’s going to talk at a joint press convention about long term plans, he added.

    Raval mentioned he was once leaving Congress because of a number of causes together with betrayal through colleagues.

    “I had many sour stories within the birthday celebration within the closing ten years. The birthday celebration now lacks teamwork. Leaders make selections with none inside dialogue and make others really feel inferior. I additionally skilled betrayal,” he mentioned.

    Congress’s beef up stage has long past down enormously in comparison to 2017 when it had received 77 seats within the 182-member Meeting, he claimed.

    He has now not demanded a ballot price ticket from the BJP, Raval added.

    Meeting polls in Gujarat are anticipated to be held in December.

    (With PTI Inputs)

    AHMEDABAD: Unsatisfied with the rising stature of Dalit activist Jignesh Mevani throughout the Congress, the birthday celebration’s senior SC chief and previous Rajya Sabha member Raju Parmar has introduced that he’s quitting the birthday celebration along side former house minister and three-term MLA Naresh Raval. Each are most probably to sign up for the BJP.

    The prominence being accorded to Mevani through the top command, particularly Rahul Gandhi, has unsettled reasonably a couple of leaders within the Gujarat Congress. Parmar claimed that Mevani was once being promoted even supposing he hadn’t achieved a lot for the birthday celebration up to now.

    Any other senior SC chief of the Congress instructed this newspaper that Mevani was once prone to be propped up because the birthday celebration’s Dalit face nationally. The chief mentioned that Mevani’s affiliation with the birthday celebration had now not yielded any sure effects, but he was once made operating president, even supposing he didn’t have any “reference to the grassroots”.

    Mevani was once elected from Vadgam meeting constituency in 2017 as an ‘Unbiased’ can didate after the Congress vacated the seat for him.

    “I and Raju Parmar have determined to renounce from Congress. We will be able to sign up for BJP at a serve as on August 17. A lot of our supporters will even sign up for the BJP on that day,” Raval instructed newshounds in Gandhinagar.

    Parmar, a distinguished Dalit chief in Gujarat Congress, showed that he’ll be leaving the birthday celebration within the subsequent two days.

    He’s going to talk at a joint press convention about long term plans, he added.

    Raval mentioned he was once leaving Congress because of a number of causes together with betrayal through colleagues.

    “I had many sour stories within the birthday celebration within the closing ten years. The birthday celebration now lacks teamwork. Leaders make selections with none inside dialogue and make others really feel inferior. I additionally skilled betrayal,” he mentioned.

    Congress’s beef up stage has long past down enormously in comparison to 2017 when it had received 77 seats within the 182-member Meeting, he claimed.

    He has now not demanded a ballot price ticket from the BJP, Raval added.

    Meeting polls in Gujarat are anticipated to be held in December.

    (With PTI Inputs)