Former MLA of Vadodara Dalsukh Prajapati leaves Congress

Vadodara

Veteran Congress leader, former MLA and two time mayor of Vadodara city in Gujarat, Mr. Dalsukhbhai Prajapati today resigned from the party alleging it of being ‘anti-poor’.

Mr. Prajapati, who had won the 2002 assembly by-election in Sayajiganj segment was also earlier Mayor of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) twice in 1989 and 1992.

Alleging that the party has no concerns for poor people, Mr. Prajapati has sent his resignation from the primary membership of the party to the Congress central high command, state head Bharat Solanki and district congress committee.

He parried a question regarding his possible association with the ruling BJP.

One of his son is still with Congress while the other is a member of BJP.

Update:

Reacting to resignation of Gujarat Congress’s Other Backward Class(OBC) department head Dalsukhbhai Prajapati’s resignation, Gujarat Congress in a statement said today that state party president Shri Bharatsinh Solanki has accepted Prajapati’s resignation with immediate effect.

The statement further said that Dalsukhbhai was inactive for a long time in OBC organization. In this connection party was already in process to make change in its OBC organization.

– DeshGujarat