Gujarat Congress’ state in-charge Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday said that the party will not project any chief ministerial candidate in Gujarat for the State Assembly elections due later this year.
The Congress is gearing up to contest elections in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state where it has been out of power for over two decades.
Ahead of the elections, a fierce race has started between the state Congress chief Bharatsinh Solanki and the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Shankarsinh Vaghela to become the party’s CM face.
Vaghela camp also wants that he should be declared the head of the election committee, but Gehlot said the decision on the issue would be taken later.
The poster wars and social media campaigns between the two camps have already started with several state leaders and MLAs, owing allegiance to the one or the other camp urging the the high command to declare their favourite leader the CM candidate before the polls, as was done in Punjab recently.
Let us unitedly capture the power and then the high command will decide who will be the chief minister.Ashok Gehlot
“If we cannot unite after being out of power for 22 years, when will we be united? Nobody should talk about naming of chief ministerial candidate. First you all should work together to get us back to power,” he said.
(With inputs from PTI)
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