Explain 25-year misrule, Vaghela tells BJP

Gandhinagar: The war of words is intensifying between the state BJP and the Congress over the celebration to mark the completion of chief minister Anandiben Patel's two years in office. Shankersinh Vaghela, the leader of the opposition in the state assembly and senior Congress figure, said on Tuesday: "Instead of celebrating two years in power, the state BJP government must give an account of the misrule in Gujarat for the past 25 years."
Vaghela said, "Rather than wasting public money on publicity why isn't the government giving saying how many dams it built, how many new power stations it set up, how many new PSUs it established?" He said he also wanted to know how many new government schools and colleges had been opened."How many women got their own homes over the past 25 years?" he asked.
Vaghela also alleged that the BJP has ruined the state's PSUs for political gain. Vijay Rupani, the state BJP president and senior minister, responded by saying that the Congress must first explain their 40 years of misrule in Gujarat. "Over the past 25 years, we have had audit by voters every five years," Rupani said. "People have approved our performance and voted for us while the Congress has almost vanished from the voters' mind."