An interesting story behind resignation of VMC ruling party chief this week

Vadodara: The leader of ruling party in Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) Alpesh Limbachiya has stepped down from his post after his wife’s brother and close aide Amit Limbachiya’s arrest in the case of circulation of defamatory literature against party colleuge and city Mayor Nilesh Rathod.

Mayor Nilesh Rathod after taking go-ahead from city BJP incharge Gordhan Zadafiya had contacted the city police commissioner and requested to probe into the literature defaming him with corruption and other allegations. Police through a postal stamp on the cover, the date of posting and the place of posting searched for CCTV footage of partucular post office area and after the investigation nabbed one Amit Limbachiya in this case. Amit is close aide of leader of ruling party Alpesh Limbachiya. Amit is brother of Alpesh’s wife. Police seized an I-10 car used for posting the letters defaming Mayor Nilesh Rathod. At the time of posting the literature, Amit’s car had mud applied on the RTO number plate. Amit has been arrested along with his relative Akash Nayi by city police crime branch. Alpesh resigned from the post of the leader of the ruling party well before police filed case against his aide Amit.

The post was posted on July 8 from Raopura post office. It was circulated by from there on July 10. It was made viral on July 13 in social media. The Mayor took this matter to city party incharge Zadafiya on July 16. On July 17 Mayor asked police commissioner to probe into this. On 21 July, the crime branch of city police nabbed two accused. DeshGujarat