GPP MERGES WITH BJP
Tuesday, 25 February 2014 | Nayan Dave | GANDHINGAR
Finally Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP) president Gordhan Zadaphia’s acrimony towards BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi transformed into bonhomie as GPP formally merged with the Bharatiya Janata Party at the State BJP’s newly constructed building ‘Shri Kamalam’ near Gandhinagar on Monday
The merger is being seen as the major political development, especially for BJP to secure eight Lok Sabha constituencies in Saurashtra region as well as couple of seats in South Gujarat. Sources in the State BJP said a huge meeting was convened at Gandhinagar town hall on Tuesday evening to welcome large number of GPP workers along with its leaders in BJP fold in presence of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
After joining BJP, Zadaphia said that not only he but everyone from Gujarat wants to see Narendrabhai as the next prime minister of India. In context of GPP founder and former Gujarat Chief Minister Suresh Mehta’s criticism, Zadaphia said the he didn’t care about anyone criticising him over the decision as he had taken majority of the leader in confidence before joining BJP.
“The decision was taken in view of the possible polarization of votes on the national scale and ‘similar ideology’ with the saffron brigade,” said Zadaphia, who was Minister of State for Home in Modi Government till 2002, while talking to The Pioneer.
Angry over the Modi’s style of functioning, he left BJP during 2007 Assembly elections and formed his own political outfit Maha Gujarat Janata Party in 2008 based on the thoughts of Deendayal Upadhyay and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee.
http://www.dailypioneer.com/nation/gpp-merges-with-bjp.html
No comments:
Post a Comment