Total bandh in Karmasad,V.V.Nagar:Jaswant Singh’s effigy burned

Central Gujarat towns Karamsad and Vallabh Vidyanagar observed total strike protesting against expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh’s book ‘Jinnah — India, Partition, Independence’ for its “defamatory references” to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

Though a bandh call was given only in Karmasad, neighboring educational town Vallabh Vidyanagar also joined the strike call.

NSUI activists went to various campuses to ensure success of the Bandh call in Vallabh Vidyanagar. The students stomped on and burned an effigy of Jaswant Singh.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of India’s greatest leaders in the Indian Independence Movement grew up in Karamsad. Karamsad was also the home of his elder brother Vithalbhai Patel, who was also an important political leader. The Patel brothers lived with their two elder brothers, one younger brother, sister, and parents Jhaverbhai and Ladba Patel in a mud-brick house adjacent to his family’s farm holdings. This house is preserved to date as a memorial to Patel.