BJP faces rebellion in its ranks in poll bound Gujarat

Congress Working Committee to announce election schedule today to elect new party president

A day after it released its second list of candidates for the Gujarat assembly poll, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) faced rebellion from some of its state leaders.

The Congress party, the challenger in the state, said it has reached a compromise on the formula for reservations in government jobs that it promised the Hardik Patel-led Patidar Amanat Andolan Samiti. 

The Patidar leadership said the formula would be announced by Patel on Monday in Rajkot.

In another much-anticipated event, the Congress Working Committee, the party’s highest decision-making body, would meet on Monday to announce the schedule to elect the successor