Gandhinagar: Younger among lot, 46-year-old Bhavanagar (West) MLA Jitu Vaghani has been appointed as new president of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) in Gujarat. His name has been announced from BJP headquarters in Delhi.

L.I.C consultant and construction business person Vaghani has emerged from Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad(ABVP) and Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha(BJYM) cadre. He is from Leuva Patidar community. He has been state office bearer holding important posts in the past including state BJYM president.

He became MLA for the first time in 2012. Vaghani is considered close to MoS in centre and BJP big-wig from Gujarat Parshottam Rupala.

The party has selected Chief Minister and party president both from Saurashtra region where it performed poorly particularly in rural pockets last year. When Modi as non-Patidar was Chief Minister, the party had selected Leuva Patidar community man R.C. Faldu as state party president to keep balance. Ditto this time party has attempted balancing as Chief Minister is non-Patidar and newly appointed state party president is Patidar. The party has with this move tried to float another Leuva Patidar young leader in Saurashtra belt. Earlier party had elevated Leuva Patidar youth Vitthal Radadia to cabinet rank in order to create young Leuva Patidar leadership in Saurashtra. The entire Patidar quota agitation that hurt BJP in Saurashtra belt was participated majorly by Leuva Patidar youths.

Vaghani is young and he will be cordial with state Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel who are very very senior. Thus there’s no possibility of a situation in which there are two centers of power(government and organization).

Vaghani will succeed Vijay Rupani as party president. Rupani was made state party president in February this year succeeding R.C.Faldu. Rupani resigned from the post of state party president before taking oath as Chief Minister of Gujarat last Sunday.

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Jitendra Savjibhai Vaghani was born on 27 October 1970. He is 46. His birth place is Vartej in district Bhavnagar. He had his primary education at government school in Lathi in district Amreli. He had his higher secondary school education at Sanatan Dharm government high school in Bhavnagar. He passed Bachelor of Commerce at MJ college of commerce in Bhavnagar and LLB in Sheth HJ Law college in Bhavnagar.

Bhavnagar West MLA at present, Vaghani was Swayam Sevak in Rashtriya Swayamsevak Santh(RSS) in evening shakha at Lathi. He was active in RSS students wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad(ABVP) in college. He was senate member in Bhavnagar University from Commerce Faculty as ABVP cadre between 1992-1997.

He has been Bhavagar city BJP Yuva Morcha(BJYM) joint secretary during 1990-1991, local school board member between 1995-2000, Bhavnagar city BJYM president in 1993-1997, Gujarat Housing Board Director in 1998-2001, BJYM Gujraat president in 2003-2009, Gujarat BJP secretary in 2009-2012(incharge of Amreli and Bhavnagar districts).

He contested Bhavnagar South assembly seat in 2007 at the age of 37 year. In 2012 he was first elected as MLA from Bhavnagar West seat with highest margin of 53,892 votes. He was latter made incharge of BJP units of Rajkot city and Rajkot district.

Vaghani has traveled East Africa, Congo, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Dubai, Italy, Rome, Austria, Switzerland and France.

Jitubhai’s political career is 28-year old. As BJYM state president he for the first time conceived and implemented and initiative in which 200 youths gave 7 days of their life for BJP as Vistarak.

Under his leadership, party had organized ‘Run for Swarnim Gujarat’ in which 25,000 to 50,000 youths participated. Kranti Gatha Yatra organized to mark 150th anniversary of independence of India was held under his leadership. He was joint incharge of Vivekanand Yuva Vikas Yatra, Kisan Heet Yatra and Sadbhavna sammelan in Saurashtra region.

Installation function at Gujarat BJP headquarters ‘Kamalam’ :

 

Gujarat will remain fortress of BJP under Vaghani: Rupani

Gandhinagar: Chief Minister Vijay Rupani today expressed confidence that Gujarat which has been the ‘fortress’ of BJP would remain so under the newly appointed state president of the ruling party Jeetu Vaghani, who name was announced today by the central leadership.

On the occasion of the formal welcome and taking charge of Mr Vaghani,also a sitting MLA of the party from Bhavnagar west constituency] at BJP headquarter at Koba here, Mr Rupani said, ‘ Gujarat has been the fortress of BJP and he had every hope that it would remain so under Mr Vaghani.

To a query the CM also said that the party leadership has given youths various important responsibilities in the government and organization and was open to more such steps in future.
To another question regarding Mr Vaghani belonging to Patidar community, Mr Rupani said the leaders from the community like Purushottam Rupala and R C Faldu had been president for a long time.

Mr Vaghani, who has got the reins of the party after resignation of Mr Rupani from the state president post in the wake of his selection as CM, today thanked national president Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for showing confidence in him.

‘I am thankful to them for showing confidence in me by giving such a big responsibility to me at a small age. I will ensure the participation of each and every party cadre without any bias in the process to further strengthen the party before the next year’s assembly polls. In BJP, president is one decoration but in fact all the activists till grass root level also deliver feeling as if they themselves were at the helm of affairs. They will continue to feel like that,’ he said adding that he pray to the saints and the lord to give him both the power and the discretion for efficiently delivering the responsibility.

Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel and other senior leaders were also present on the occasion.

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