Summary:
A majority of ruling BJP members in the panchayat formed a group and elected the members to seven committees. The BJP Panchmahal district president sent a mandate to the party’s members with a list of members to be elected to the committees and the chairpersons of these committees. The party mandate was naming a committee member as the president too.“This takes away the right of the committee members to elect a president. Sources said that one of the major reasons for the discontent was that as per the rules, the committee members were elected by the panchayat. Later, the committee members chose a chairperson from amongst themselves..