Haren Pandya’s wife gets ticket
30 Nov 2012 6:54 AM IST
The wife of slain former BJP minister Haren Pandya, Jagruti, on Thursday announced she will contest polls from Ellisbridge constituency of the city on Gujarat Parivartan Party ticket to get ‘justice for her husband from people’s court.’ Haren Pandya, who was assassinated on 26 March, 2003, was earlier the minister of state for home in the Keshubhai Patel government. Former chief minister Patel rebelled against BJP and floated GPP.
‘My husband’s assassination was a political murder. For the last 10 years I have been fighting a legal battle to get him justice but in vain...however, I will continue to fight,’ Jagruti Pandya said. ‘I have not received any support from the BJP in my fight. My husband gave his life for the party. But he was not aware that he would be betrayed,’ Pandya said in an emotional appeal declaring her candidature. ‘BJP has not remained a party with an ideology but it has become a one man outfit here,’ Pandya said in an apparent reference to Modi. Pandya will contest from Ellisbridge constituency, from where Haren had won thrice.
‘My husband’s assassination was a political murder. For the last 10 years I have been fighting a legal battle to get him justice but in vain...however, I will continue to fight,’ Jagruti Pandya said. ‘I have not received any support from the BJP in my fight. My husband gave his life for the party. But he was not aware that he would be betrayed,’ Pandya said in an emotional appeal declaring her candidature. ‘BJP has not remained a party with an ideology but it has become a one man outfit here,’ Pandya said in an apparent reference to Modi. Pandya will contest from Ellisbridge constituency, from where Haren had won thrice.
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