Deputy Mayor Chirag Barot has been a BJP member since 1990 and is a three-term municipal corporator, who had also served as the BJP's election in-charge of the Akota assembly constituency in December.
News of Solanki’s resignation has triggered speculations about a 'crackdown' on more BJP leaders in the wake of a defamation case linked to Mayor Nilesh Rathod.
Sundarsinh Bhuresinh Rajput, a native of Alamgir village at Auraiya in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested by the parole and furlough squad of the Vadodara Crime Branch.