Resigned as CM after being told only the previous night by BJP high command: Rupani | Political Pulse News,The Indian Express
Didn’t ask for a reason, so wasn’t given one… high command decision is always final: former Gujarat CM.
In an interview to The Indian Express, Rupani, who stepped down on September 11, 2021, said, “Aagla divasey ratre j kidhu ane mein bije divesey aapi j didhu (They told me the previous night and I submitted it (resignation) the very next day).”
“I didn’t ask them the reason and, therefore, they didn’t give me one. Had I asked, I am sure they would have given me the reason. But I have always been a disciplined worker of the party. I have always done what the party has asked me to do. The party made me Chief Minister, so I became one. Then the party told me that they are replacing me and I told them to do it happily.”
He said hours after receiving instructions from his party, he submitted his resignation to Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat on September 21, without any protest or tantrum.
“As a good worker, I have never gone against the party line and, therefore, tendered my resignation the very next day. And I submitted my resignation with a smiling face, not a sulking one,” he said.
The BJP veteran, who has been in public life for 49 years and has risen through the ranks after joining the party’s student wing in 1973, received an emotional reception by BJP workers and supporters in Rajkot when he returned to his hometown after making way for Bhupendra Patel as Chief Minister.
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