Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP) is a new political formation geared to making politics in Gujarat a triangular affair. The party is a collection of those elements from the BJP who do not approve of the ways in which Narendra Modi governs the state. Keshu Bhai leads it.
The new party has decided to take on Narendra Modi in the polls for the board of directors of Baroda District Cooperative Milk Producers Union. The party will contest all the 13 seats in the polls to be held later this month.
Baroda milk union is one of the members of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation(GCMMF) which produces Amul. Banas Dairy, another member represented by former Chairman of GCMMF Parthi Bhatol is also going to polls this month.
Observers see the new party as a spoiler in that the polls so far had been mere an affair between groups supported by the BJP and the Congress.
The new party views the upcoming elections in the dairy organisation as an opportunity to establish its base in the countryside.
The emergence of GPP has caused some unease in the political circles of the state even if the two main parties are trying to make the development seem insignificant.
A senior source at the Baroda milk cooperative union is quoted as saying it would not be a surprise if the new party upended the traditional arrangement.