Controversy between son, father and Narendra Modi

Dilip Patel
Ahmedabad, July 30, 2024 (Google translation from Gujarati)

Siddharth Praful Patel was removed from the post of regional coordinator of the social media cell even before the end of his term.

Siddharth Praful Patel had recently behaved very rudely with the manager of Shamlaji temple.

The details about this are that Siddharth Shamlaji, son of former Gujarat Home Minister and currently serving as Administrator of Diu, Daman and Dadra Nagar Haveli for 7 years, is the junior trustee of Siddharth Shamlaji Trust. Shamlaji Vishnu Temple Trust trustee Mayank Nayak is a Rajya Sabha member of BJP.

It is said that the donation and gift money of Triloki Nath temple has gone into the pockets of treasurer Mukesh Pramodrai Trivedi and trustees.

Siddharth wrote Rajopchari Puja in Shamlaji in memory of his grandmother. Temple manager Shailesh Shukla forgot to write the details of the puja on the notice board. Insulted. Trust’s vice-president Ranveer Singh Dabhi also said something for him.

Siddharth is the direct successor of his father Praful Patel in terms of temperament. Father and son always keep arguing.

It is important to understand what the disputes between the two are.

A politician

Siddharth P Patel is the former social media coordinator of Gujarat BJP. Siddharth was managing the social media account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi before and after the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Later he joined CR Patil. Siddharth is the only son of P. Patel. He did engineering abroad. Before joining the family business, he worked in a leading IT company of India.

After doing academic work from kindergarten to college from arts and commerce, pharmacy, law, Siddharth Prafulbhai Patel was appointed to Himmatnagar Kelvani Mandal.

Trustee of Shamlaji Temple

In 2019, by posting a false rumor on Facebook, Praful Patel’s son Siddharth Patel was named Unedvar Taraki from Himmatnagar assembly seat in the 2022 Gujarat assembly elections.

Praful
Praful Khoda Patel is the unelected administrator of the Union Territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu and Lakshadweep.

Secretary to Dilip Patel

He was the personal secretary of Dilip Patel, Minister of State for Narmada Development and former MLA of Anand, in the Keshubhai Patel government. Patel, who holds a diploma in engineering, also worked in the Public Works Department.

Political career

He won from Himmatnagar constituency in the 2007 Gujarat Assembly elections. He became an MLA for the first time and was Minister of State for Home from 2010 to 2012 Assembly elections.

Narendra Modi was Minister of State for Home from 21 August 2010.

When Amit Shah’s name came up in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh murder case, he resigned and Praful Patel was made Minister of State for Home in place of Modi and all the accounts were given to Amit Shah.

Help Modi

He used to give secret information of the Keshubhai government to Modi. When Modi was expelled from Gujarat, many BJP leaders including Keshubhai, Kashiram Rana, Rajendrasinh Rana and Suresh Mehta helped Vajpayee and Avni to expel Modi from Gujarat. When Modi was sacked in Delhi, P. Patel helped Modi a lot. Modi is repaying him till date.

No decision is taken without Modi’s approval.

It is clear that Patel has Modi’s support. Modi used to visit his house often. Patel is one of Modi’s trusted aides. He is also close to Union Home Minister Shah and former Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel. P Patel helped when the then Chief Minister Modi was expelled from the state due to Shankarsinh Vaghela’s rebellion. During his visit, he took full care of his stay in Ahmedabad. He held secret meetings with Modi at Sanskar Dham. When Haren Pandya was spying on Modi.

Police controversy

As a minister, he is known to insult even the Director General of Police during meetings. Patel is not media friendly; As a minister of state, he rarely addressed a press conference. As a minister of state for home, he never gave the correct details to the journalists. He is a replica of Modi.

Praful Patel lost the 2012 Gujarat assembly elections. A political career cut short.

Umta village
Having come from Umta village in Mehsana district of North Gujarat, the Patel family has a construction business. He has a bungalow in Himmatnagar. Kadva belongs to the Patidar subcaste. Due to his arrogant nature, people kept working against him.

Sangh
Patel’s father Khoda Ranchhod Patel was a leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Narendra Modi often visited him.

Authorities in Diu Daman
Modi appointed Patel as the administrator of Daman and Diu in 2016. After some time he was appointed as the administrator of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

Praful Patel was the first politically appointed administrator in the history of Union Territories. Earlier this job was given to officers of the Indian Administrative Service. On 26 January 2020, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu were merged. Modi appointed him as the administrator of the Union Territory of Lakshadweep from 5 December 2020.

Controversy

On 10 April 2019, the Election Commission of India issued a notice to Praful K Patel. He was violating the provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1951. Praful Patel directly called the election officials and issued instructions.

Violating the code of conduct

Notice to Mohanbhai Sanjibhai Delkar for his conduct

Patel intervened when he was sent a notice. Praful Patel retaliated by issuing a notice to Gopinath, which Election Commission officials described as an act of political vendetta.

2019 Daman tribals protest against land clearing

Moti Daman has a beautiful 700-metre beach from the lighthouse to Jampore Beach. It is owned by tribal fishermen who have been living here for generations as well as an NRI living in Leicester, UK. However, in 2018, their houses were demolished and the land was confiscated. Bulldozers arrived in Daman and protests broke out, with schools being turned into water and imprisoned.

Suicide of Mohan Delkar

Mohanbhai Sanjibhai Delkar was a BJP MP in the Lok Sabha who fought for tribal rights. He committed suicide by hanging himself at Hotel Sea Green in Mumbai on 22 February 2021. The 15-page suicide note said that Praful Patel was committing suicide due to humiliation, injustice and bias. However, Praful Patel was saved from Delhi by his political godfather. Justice was thrown into the sea. An FIR was lodged under sections 306 (abetment to suicide), 389 (endangering a person in the offence of extortion) and 506 (criminal intimidation). But nothing happened.

On July 5, 2020, Delkar posted a video on Twitter in which he threatened to resign as a Lok Sabha MP because the local administration was after him for spying. Then on September 19, he raised the issue of misbehavior in Parliament. He announced that his powers had been taken away.

Several politicians, including Praful Patel, Daman Collector Sandeep Kumar Singh, former Superintendent of Police Sharad Darade and BJP leader Fateh Singh V Chauhan, were booked under sections of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.

Who has a history of land grabbing disputes. Delkar’s son Abhinav threatened Delkar to pay ₹25 crore (US$3.0 million) or be implicated under the PASA Act.

Who is responsible

Mohan Delkar was against BJP. He was strongly criticizing the Narendra Modi government in Parliament. An order was issued from Delhi to harass him. Police officers were misbehaving with him. He said in the video that BJP, IAS, IPS, Delhi leaders are harassing gangsters.

He supported Janata Dal United (JDU) in the local self-rule elections of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. Due to which it was BJP’s turn to suffer losses in the local elections. He supported BJP but did not like BJP because BJP was continuously losing here. Many police cases were registered against him. BJP leaders were ordered to harass him.

Orders were given to put supporters in jail.

The body of Mohan Sanjibhai Delkar, independent MP from Dadra and Nagar Haveli, was found in a hotel on Marine Drive in Mumbai on Monday.

It is worth noting that 58-year-old Mohanbhai Delkar was a seven-time Lok Sabha MP. Local police reached the spot after getting information about the incident.

He was a very famous leader in the tribal society of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. Apart from this, he was the President of Tribal Development Organization, Dadra and Nagar Haveli since 1985.

Did good work for the tribals.

Mohan Delkar’s father Sanjibhai Rupjibhai Delkar played a role in liberating Dadra and Nagar Haveli from Portuguese rule for 200 years. He served in the Lok Sabha as an MP from the state twice since 1961. He became the first Lok Sabha MP from the state. Father Sanjibhai Delkar also played an important role in raising the voice of local tribals in Parliament. He started his public career by forming a local labor union in 1986-87 and serving as its president. He had a good influence on the tribal area of ​​​​South Gujarat.

He first won the Lok Sabha elections in the year 1989 as an independent candidate. Then he was elected for 5 consecutive times. During the term of the 10th Lok Sabha, he was elected from the Congress party.

Delkar was elected as an independent MP in the 11th Lok Sabha. During the term of the 12th Lok Sabha, he was elected as a Bharatiya Janata Party MP from the Dadra and Nagar Haveli constituency.

During the 14th Lok Sabha, he founded his own political party Bharatiya Navshakti Party and once again reached the Parliament House as an MP in the year 2004.

In 2009 and 2014, he lost to BJP candidate Natubhai Patel as a Congress candidate.

In 2019, he was elected for the seventh time as an independent candidate. In 2019, the BJP-led coalition supported the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

He had no enemies. His image was that of a popular leader as well as an opposition leader. Even his political rivals always have a sense of respect for him.

Save Lakshadweep

Modi appointed Praful Patel as the administrator of Lakshadweep.

All dairy farms on the islands managed by the Animal Husbandry Department were shut down. Cattle were auctioned. Imported from Gujarat-based Amul.

The ban on beef and meat from the school mid-day meal scheme was lifted. Locals accused the administration of implementing a Hindutva agenda. Fishermen’s coastal sheds were also demolished.

Some local members of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Lakshadweep also protested against Modi’s decision.

Criticized Patel’s policies.

February 2023 The demolition of the 400-year-old chapel, a place of worship of the Catholic community in Daman, began.

It was done. Praful Patel wanted to convert it into a football ground here.

Patel has been controversial in all his postings. During the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Dadra and Nagar Haveli Collector Kannan Gopinathan had alleged that Patel had issued instructions in violation of the model code of conduct. (Google translation from Gujarati)