The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which stunned many with its victory in Surat Municipal elections in 2021, is showing to be in splits in Gujarat. On Friday midnight, six AAP municipal councillors in Surat switched sides to hitch the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Along with them, 4 AAP councillors who had left the get together earlier formally joined the BJP. CR Patil, who’s Gujarat BJP chief and a member of Lok Sabha from the Navsari constituency, presided over the occasion. Gujarat’s Home Minister Harsh Sanghvi was additionally current through the event.Â
The six municipal councillors who left AAP are Ghanshyam Makwana, Dharmendra Vavaliya, Kiran Khokhani, Ashok Dhami, Niraliben Patel and Swati Kyada. The 4 councillors who had left the get together earlier are Bhavnaben Solanki, Rutaben Kheni, Jyotikaben Lathiya and Vipulbhai Movaliya.Â
#WATCH | Gujarat: 6 AAP corporators from Surat joined BJP within the presence of state Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi (14/04) pic.twitter.com/Glc2jZAVPU
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The AAP had made a spectacular debut within the Surat civic physique in 2021 profitable a complete of 27 seats. The Surat victory had marked AAP’s official entry into Gujarat’s politics. Now, out of the 27 seats, solely 17 are left with AAP. The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) has 120 seats. The BJP had gained 93 seats within the 2021 polls. With 10 AAP councillors becoming a member of the saffron get together, it now has 103 members in the home. Congress didn’t win any seat within the polls.Â
In the 2022 Gujarat Assembly Election, the AAP troubled the BJP and Congress to win 5 maiden seats with a vote share of 12.92 per cent. The Gujarat meeting seats gained by the AAP have been Botad, Dediapada, Gariadhar, Jamjodhpur and Visavadar. With its victory in Punjab, Delhi and Gujarat, the AAP grew to become eligible to get the standing of a nationwide get together. The Election Commission of India on April 10 accorded the standing of a nationwide get together to the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP.
