Radadia resigns as Cong MP, prefers to be MLA in Guj

"I have decided to stay in Gujarat to work for the people here by being an MLA and have resigned from Lok Sabha seat," said Radadia.

"Today I have sent my resignation letter to Lok Sabha Speaker," he added.

Vitthal Radadia had caused embarrassment to the Congress party when he had brandished his gun at a toll plaza staff on October 11 last year at Karjan in Vadodara.

Radadia, who also got elected from Dhoraji Assembly seat had to take a call by today if he wanted to retain his Assembly seat or not.

As per constitutional provisions, a leader who gets elected from both Parliament and state Assembly seats can only represent in one House and has to decide within 15 days of his last election.

During the recent Assembly elections in Gujarat, out of three MPs fielded by Congress, two - Radadia and Somabhai Patel- won their Assembly seats and one, Kunvarji Bavalia, lost.

Patel, the MP from Surendranagar, had decided to retain his Lok Sabha seat and resigned as MLA from Limdi.

"Somabhai Patel has sent his resignation letter to the state Assembly," state Congress unit spokesperson Manish Doshi said. MORE