Ahmedabad: Alpesh Thakor and Dhawal Singh Jala, who recently held a goodbye speech to the Congress, have been in trouble with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In the Rajya Sabha by-election in Gujarat, both of them had cross-voted, against which the Congress has moved the High Court. In the said election, the Congress had issued a whip to all its MLAs and asked them to vote in favour of the Congress candidate.

In this by-election, Alpesh Thakor and Dhawal Singh Jala voted in favour of the BJP candidate by cross voting. After the voting, both of them resigned from the assembly membership and joined the BJP. The Gujarat Congress has filed an application in the High Court seeking to declare the vote of the two leaders invalid. The Congress alleges that Alpesh Thakor and Dhaval Singh Jhala had violated the party's whip.

Describing the BJP as a party of disciplined activists, Thakor, a popular leader of the OBC community, said it was difficult for him to work for his community while in the Congress. Thakor said, "I was feeling suffocated in Congress because I was unable to do anything for the development of the poor voice of my community. Nothing can be done because of the immaturity and arrogance of its leaders in Congress," he said.

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