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SURAT/GANDHINAGAR: Senior BJP member and Bharuch MP Mansukh Vasava resigned from the party on Tuesday citing personal and health reasons, just days after he wrote to the Prime Minister seeking withdrawal of a notification declaring 121 villages of Narmada district an ‘eco-sensitive zone’.
He had expressed apprehension and concern that the tribal population of the district would lose employment opportunities due to the notification.
His resignation is likely to adversely affect BJP’s fortunes in the upcoming local body polls in the tribal belt, where Chhotu Vasava’s Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP) and AIMIM have already struck an alliance. In his letter to Gujarat party chief CR Paatil, Vasava wrote, “I thank the BJP high command and the party for giving me all that I could handle. I have been loyal to the party always. I am a human being and mistakes happen. I have resigned from the party so my mistake does not harm it. I beg that the party forgives me and I wi