Shaktisinh Gohil resigns as Guj Cong chief after bypoll defeat | Ahmedabad News
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Shaktisinh Gohil resigns as Guj Cong chief after bypoll defeat
The Congress put up a dismal performance in both — Visavadar and Kadi — seats. The Congress was reduced to just 17 seats in the election and has since lost 5 more MLAs to defection. Shaktisinh Gohil was appointed as president of the state unit in June 2023. He said he sent his resignation to party president Mallikarjun Kharge.
resigned from his post on Monday. He said he sent his resignation to party president
and asked state organisational general secretary Shailesh Parmar to function as interim state president until the party appoints a new president.
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The Congress put up a dismal performance in both — Visavadar and Kadi — seats. While Rajendra Chavda of the BJP defeated Congress’ Ramesh Chavda by a margin of 39,452 votes in Kadi, Congress candidate Nitin Ranpariya polled only 5,501 votes in the Visavadar, ending third behind winner Gopal Italia of AAP and Kirit Patel of the BJP the runner-up.
“Since the bypoll results were not as per our expectations, I take the moral responsibility for my party’s defeat and resign as the president of
.
I have already mailed my resignation to our national president Mallikarjun Kharge,” Gohil told reporters in Ahmedabad on Monday.
“I have informed the party leadership that I will continue to remain a worker of the
,” the Rajya Sabha MP told reporters.
Succeeding Jagdish Thakor, Shaktisinh Gohil was appointed as president of the state unit in June 2023, a few months after the Congress put up its worst assembly election performance in the Dec 2022 elections. The Congress was reduced to just 17 seats in the election and has since lost 5 more MLAs to defection.