Ahmed Patel wins Gujarat Rajya Sabha election against the BJP president Amit Shah. As the election commission declared the Ahmed Patel for the member of Gujarat Rajya Sabha. On Wednesday, State Congress President Shantaram Naik said that the election of Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s aide Ahmed Patel to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat, amid late-night drama on Tuesday, has rejuvenated the party. “Victory of Ahmed Patel is historic,” Naik told reporters at the Congress state headquarters in Panaji. “They had to face atrocities and gimmicks of the BJP for last several days. In spite of that, at midnight the results were declared and Patel got elected. We are very happy. He has rejuvenated the Congress party with his election victory.”
Naik also said that the Bharatiya Janata Party has no right to stake claim to India’s freedom movement as the party ideologues in the pre-Independence era colluded with the British. “Predecessors of the BJP, which consists of RSS and other forces, wanted Britishers to stay. They colluded with Britishers to deny freedom of India and today they are boasting of freedom and other things. They have practically no right to speak of the freedom movement,” he said.
Naik also accused the BJP-led coalition government at the Centre, as well as in states, of trying to erase top Congress leaders from history books. “They want to remove names of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and all other Congress leaders like Indira Gandhi etc. from history books… They want to rewrite history books,” Naik said.
This is not just my victory. It is a defeat of the most blatant use of money power,muscle power and abuse of state machinery
— Ahmed Patel (@ahmedpatel) August 8, 2017
I want to thank each & every MLA who voted for me despite unprecedented intimidation & pressure from BJP.They voted for an inclusive India
— Ahmed Patel (@ahmedpatel) August 8, 2017
BJP stands exposed of personal vendetta and political terror. People of Gujarat will give them a befitting reply in this year's election
— Ahmed Patel (@ahmedpatel) August 8, 2017
I thank my party leadership for giving me this opportunity & all my party workers & colleagues whose relentless hardwork made this possible
— Ahmed Patel (@ahmedpatel) August 8, 2017
