At an event organised on Sunday by the Chaudhary community in Solaiya village of Mansa taluka in Gandhinagar, CM Bhupendra Patel and Gujarat Assembly Speaker, Shankar Chaudhary, were seeing sharing the stage with Vipul Chaudhary. He has been a former minister in the Shankersinh Vaghela government and stands accused in the alleged Rs 800 crore scam.
Leaders from the community across party lines were seen at the event organised under the aegis of Vishv Anjana Mahasammelan, headed by NRI Raman Chaudhary from the US-Canada.
Hailing the contribution of the Chaudhary community in the agriculture and dairy sectors of Gujarat, the CM hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governmental support in bolstering unity in the community.
Among the dairy leaders on stage were Shankar Chaudhary who heads the Banas Dairy, which is among the richest in Gujarat, and Ashok Chaudhary who heads the Dudhsagar dairy of Mehsana that was earlier headed by Vipul.
Banaskantha MP Parbat Patel, Kheralu MLA Sardar Chaudhary, Mansa MLA J S Patel, former Union minister Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary from Banaskantha, president of Akhil Anjana Kelavani Mandal Haribhai V Chaudhary, former MLAs Amit Chaudhary and Ramila Chaudhary, former minister Harjivan Patel and BJP MP from Mehsana Shardaben Patel were also present.
In his address, former chairman of Dudhsagar Dairy, Vipul Chaudhary, who has been implicated by the Anti-Corruption Bureau on charges of corruption, emphasised the importance of uniting the community. “Only that community, which is awakened, can walk with the time,” he said.
In October 2022, Congress leaders gathered at Mehsana in solidarity with Vipul who was in jail in a case accusing him of alleged irregularities worth Rs 800 crore in which former CM Shankersinh Vaghela and former Gujarat Pradesh Congress committee (GPCC) president Arjun Modhwadia were summoned as witnesses. The gathering organised by the Anjana Chaudharys was addressed by the two leaders who had campaigned against the BJP.
In the run up to the recently concluded Gujarat assembly elections, Arbuda Sena led by Vipul had protested against ruling BJP at a number of places in north Gujarat.
President of the Mahasammelan, Raman Chaudhary, called upon the community to start thinking about going abroad and to motivate their young towards the same. More than 200 NRIs participated in the event.
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