Anand, 11 December, 2011

Former minister of state Govind Parmar yesterday joined the BJP with his supporters at party’s headquarter in Ahmedabad.

Parmar’s entry into BJP is significant. Parmar is Kshatriya leader from central Gujarat’s Sarsa. Thanks to support of his mentor Madhavsinh Solanki, he was first elected to Gujarat assembly from Sarsa constituency as independent candidate defeating Congress party’s candidate Jayant Bosky.

Parmar later became minister of state for Agriculture in Shankersinh Vaghela government. In 1998 he fought assembly election on Congress ticket and was elected from Sarsa. In subsequent election, Parmar was defeated by rival BJP candidate. In last election, Gujarat Congress came into alliance with Sharad Pawar led NCP under which instead of puting its own candidate, Congress supported NCP candidate Jayant Bosky in Sarsa.

This is just a background, but an interesting turn is next.

Gujarat assembly general election scheduled in December 2012 will be held as per new delimitation. Sarsa will cease to exist as a constituency in 2012. While some area of Sarsa is allotted to Anklav constituency, some other area shall be connected to Umreth constituency.

This is perhaps the reason why Jayant Bosky, sitting MLA of Sarsa and President of Gujarat unit of NCP is reportedly flirting with BJP.

And when both Parmar and Bosky are interested in BJP, Congress is clear looser in this area.

It should be mentioned that central Gujarat’s Kheda and Anand are the areas where Congress MPs are regularly elected to Lok Sabha. Even in assembly, these areas are not considered as BJP’s strong hold.

Govindbhai Parmar is experienced politician, but in Gujarat Congress, he was just a delegate in state unit.

In view of 2012 assembly election, if every seat is important for Congress, that too in close battle areas, then Govindbhai is clear loss.