A high-level Gujarat Congress leaders’ meeting in Gujarat has landed in a soup following reports that the leaders met and dined at Hotel Taj in Ahmedabad at a time when the party has been advocating austerity measures.
Gujarat Congress chief Siddharth Patel’s dinner meeting on Monday night has ruffled a few feathers with his detractors claiming that he should not have opted for a five-star hotel at a time when the party is propagating austerity.
With this, pressure to change the Gujarat Congress president has increased.
Mr Patel, son of late chief minister Chimanbhai Patel is also being alleged of being authoritative and not being a team person.
After the recent defeat of the Congress in the Assembly byelections, pressure to replace him with someone more "people-oriented and with a team spirit" has mounted.
Mr Siddharth Patel had convened a meeting on Monday night at the Taj to discuss the future of the Congress in Gujarat. Those who attended included three Union ministers from Gujarat — Mr Dinsha Patel, Mr Bharat Solanki and Mr Tushar Chaudhry — besides Gujarat’s leader of the Opposition Shaktisinh Gohil.
About a dozen other senior leaders also attended the meeting.
No leaders were ready to comment but admitted that it was wrong for the party president to convene the meeting in a five-star hotel. Though Mr Siddharth Patel was not available for comments, a source closed to him said that the State Congress president t was forced to convene the meeting at the five-star hotel because several members who had been invited by him to deliberate upon the future of the Gujarat Congress were not keen to meet up at the Government Circuit House and had complained about the "mundane government vegetarian" food available there.
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