Guarjat CM has allotted Rs 1.50 crore from his local area development funds
Rajkot: Chief minister Vijay Rupani and three other MLAs have jointly allocated Rs 5.50 crore from their local area development funds for construction of oxygen plants at Rajkot civil hospital.
Apart from Rupani, who is the incumbent MLA of Rajkot (west), Rajkot (east) MLA Arvind Raiyani and Rajkot (south) MLA Govind Patel have allotted Rs 1.50 crore each from their respective funds. Rajkot (rural) MLA Lakha Sagathiya has allotted Rs 1 crore, taking the total fund allotted for the construction of the oxygen plants to Rs 5.5 crore. All four are BJP MLAs.
Rajkot: This civic polls may turn out to be contest for the newbies in BJP in Rajkot as the older faces of the municipal corporation (RMC) may not contest this time. According to party officials, the party has more than 700 ticket aspirants in Rajkot only on 72 seats of RMC.
BJP city president Kamlesh Mirani told TOI “Nitin Bhardwaj and Jaiman Upadhyay have explicitly expressed unwillingness to contest election this time.”
Brother of late Rajya Sabha member Abhay Bhardwaj, Nitin’s family is very close to chief minister Vijay Rupani and going by sources, his supporters are lobbying for a RS ticket on the seat left vacant by the sudden death of his elder brother. Abhay Bhardwaj had succumbed to Covid-19 recently.