By IANS
Ahmedabad : Dissidents in Gujarat’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are in a dilemma over their future course of action as the assembly elections draw closer.
Five suspended BJP legislators, including former minister of state for home Gordhan Zadaphia, yet again met for over four hours late Tuesday, but could not arrive at any decision about what to do in future.
The five legislators, in particular, divided over whether or not to cross over to the opposition Congress party.
Zadaphia later reiterated that the dissidnts’ fight was against Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership and not against the party.
Political equations in the state are changing rapidly as the assembly elections are due by December.
Modi scored a point over his detractors as he managed to get back into the BJP fold Vipul Chadhuary, chairman of the Mehsana Dairy.
Chadhuary, earlier known as a confidant of Union Textiles Minister Shankarsinh Vagela and until recently a bitter foe of Modi, has called it truce.
The chief minister has also managed to rope in Manish Gilitwala, the former Congress legislator from Surat, for the BJP this month.
Waiting in the wings is Shankar Varli, the Congress legislator from Umbergaon in south Gujarat, who has been suspended from his party.
Meanwhile, Pabubha Virambha Manek, the Congress legislator from Dwarka, said Wednesday that after quitting the Congress he was joining neither the BJP nor the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
Manek told IANS from Jamnagar that he was holding consultations with his supporters and well-wishers on the next step to take. He, however, asserted that he will contest the forthcoming assembly polls in December.