After Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) raised questions over a video of him being allegedly in an inebriated state at an event celebrating President Droupadi Murmu’s election victory, Rashmikant Vasava on Monday resigned as BJP president in Gujarat’s Chhota Udepur district.
In a video going viral on social media, two party workers can be seen carrying an unsteady Vasava. Later, he was also seen sleeping while sitting on the stage during the event.
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Forget Smriti Irani’s daughter’s bar license controversy, watch Gujarat BJP leader Rashmikant Vasava’s drunken behaviour in public event in presence of woman minister Nimisha Suthar pic.twitter.com/XS7PTz3pRG
— URScrewed (@URScrewed_) July 24, 2022
Meanwhile, Vasava sent his resignation letter to state party president C R Paatil stating that he was resigning as told.
“As per instructions issued by C R Paatil Saheb, I am resigning from the post of district president of BJP Chhota Udepur,” the letter said.
According to BJP state general secretary Bhargav Bhatt, the saffron party did not demand Vasava’s resignation but he voluntarily resigned after a controversy broke out.
Congress and AAP, meanwhile, slammed the BJP.
Taking to Twitter, Gujarat Congress President Jagdish Thakor raised questions over the liquor ban in the state. “Is this BJP government’s liquor ban? Liquor ban exists only on paper because alcohol is sold everywhere here (sic),” he wrote in Hindi.
गुजरात में दारुबंधी की हकीकत बया करते हुई छोटा उदेयपुर के भाजपा जिला अध्यक्ष।
क्या यही है भाकपा सरकार की दारूबंधी?
दारूबंधी सिर्फ कागजों पर मौजूद है क्योंकि यहां हर जगह दारू मिलती है।#Drink #Gujarat pic.twitter.com/lDWOExwFE8
— Jagdish Thakor (@jagdishthakormp) July 24, 2022
AAP leader Nikhil Savani questioned the lack of an investigation into the incident. He tweeted in Gujarati, “The BJP District President, who shared the stage with a woman Minister stumbling, in an inebriated state, has resigned at the instructions of the Party President but will there be any investigation by the Gujarat Police to ascertain which bootlegger did he (Vasava) procure the alcohol from?”
મહિલા મંત્રી સાથે નશાની હાલતમાં લથડિયાં ખાનાર છોટાઉદયપુર જિલ્લા પ્રમુખે માજી બુટલેગરની સૂચનાથી રાજીનામું તો આપી દીધું પરંતુ નશો કરીને ફરનાર પ્રમુખ કયા બુટલેગર પાસેથી દારૂ લીધો હતો એની તપાસ @GujaratPolice કરશે?@SandeepPathak04 @vikaskyogi pic.twitter.com/WqOjXoVe6C
— Nikhil Savani (@NikhilSavani_) July 24, 2022
