Key BJP Leader Quits Post Just A Year Ahead Of Lok Sabha Polls

Ahmedabad:

BJP’s Pradipsinh Vaghela today resigned as the Gujarat general secretary, party officials said. While stepping down, Mr Vaghela told people that “everything will be alright in a few days.”

Mr Vaghela had been appointed as the general secretary of the state BJP on August 10, 2016.

The announcement comes just a year ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Keeping the polls in mind, Gujarat BJP recently conducted a ‘Maha Jan Sampark Abhiyan’ or mass contact programme, wherein it organised gatherings of intellectuals and conventions of different business communities among other things.

Under this mass outreach initiative, the party organised 100 gatherings of intellectual citizens, conventions of different business communities, events by various cells of the state BJP and large rallies in all the 26 Lok Sabha constituencies