Ready to rejoin Congress to fight BJP in Gujarat: Shankersinh Vaghela
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Last Updated: Feb 03, 2021, 06:42 PM IST
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Vaghela had quit the Congress before the 2017 Gujarat Assembly polls. Two years later, he had joined the Sharad Pawar-led NCP. However, in June last year, he had resigned from the NCP due to some differences and floated the PSDP.
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Later, he joined the Congress and served as Textile Minister in the Manmohan Singh government.
Ahmedabad: Former Gujarat chief minister Shankersinh Vaghela, who had quit the Congress in 2017 after remaining in it for two decades, on Wednesday said he was ready to return to the party without any pre-conditions to fight the ruling BJP in the state. Vaghela, 80, who currently heads a little-known political outfit called the the Praja Shakti Democratic Party (PSDP), issued a statement in which he claimed that many Congress workers and leaders have been urging him to return to the party.