After almost a week after the saffron party’s National Executive meeting in Bangalore, the Gujarat unit of the BJP will hold its State Executive on Sunday, April 12 at the State BJP headquarters on the outskirts of Gandhinagar.
Apart from choosing new Gujarat BJP chief, the major issues to be taken up in the State Executive are upcoming elections in six Municipal Corporations, including Ahmedabad, 57 municipalities, 31 district panchayats, and 220 tehshil panchayat.
“The term of current Gujarat BJP president RC Faladu is concluding. Few names are already making rounds including that of Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, senior Cabinet colleague of Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel as well as junior Minister Pradipsinh Jadeja,” said a source in BJP.
Faladu belongs to Patel community and the Chief Minister is also from the same community, he said, adding it is important to give representation to other community too and this time a candidate from powerful Kshtriya community may be consider as successor of Faladu.
The meeting will be attended by Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel and her Cabinet Ministers, State BJP office bearers as well as representatives of party’s district units across the State.
Workers to form human flag of BJP
In wake of BJP’s foundation day on April 6, more than 25,000 BJP workers will form a 1 lakh sq. ft party flag on Monday at Navjivan College ground in tribal dominated Dahod. Though all the district units in the State will celebrate the party’s foundation day, but the State-level celebration will be conducted in Dahod in presence of Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, State BJP president RC Faladu and others. According to State BJP spokesman IK Jadeja, the State unit achieved a feat of enrolling more than 1 crore primary members.