 "Shankersinh Vaghela. Photo: http://shankersinhvaghela.in/")
Shankersinh Vaghela, who quit the Congress party in July, on Tuesday announced that he will lead a new political ‘front’ — the Jan Vikalp (people’s alternative) — that will contest all the 182-Gujarat Assembly seats in the upcoming polls.
This is set to make the Gujarat Assembly polls a multi-cornered fight if the Aam Aadmi Partyalso fields candidates, and should help eat into the anti-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) votes. The Congress is set to lead an alliance of other smaller parties.
The Gujarat unit of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) might also join hands with Vaghela. The two legislators of
