Gandhinagar: Former Gujarat CM and union minister Shankersinh Vaghela who had joined the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on January 29 this year has been appointed as the new state president of the party.

78 year old Rajput leader had been inducted in the party as its national general secretary earlier on.

A letter of appointment by NCP president Sharad Pawar received by Vaghela’s office said that he would replace Jayant Patel alias Boski who has now been elevated as the national general secretary of the party.

Boski today confirmed this.

Notably, Vaghela who had joined politics through Jan Sangha and continued in BJP but left it to make his own party Rashtriya Janta Party during his revolt to form his own government. He had later joined Congress and resigned from it too on July 21, 2017 on his 77 th birthday.

He had announced to quit politics but led a front called Jan Vikalp Morcha in the last assembly election in Gujarat in 2017.

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