Vaghela Pitches Third ‘Front’ for Non-BJP, Non-Congress Candidates

The people were fed up with the BJP and the Congress and were desperate for an alternative, Vaghela said.

After days of suspense, maverick Gujarat politician Shankersinh Vaghela, recently sacked by the Congress for engineering a revolt ahead of the August Rajya Sabha polls, on 19 September announced his support to a third front, the Jan Vikalp, in the state.

The front, believed to be Vaghela's brainchild, will support candidates from an assortment of non-BJP and non-Congress political parties as well as independents who register with it for the upcoming assembly elections, the former Chief Minister said.