Why didn't you vote for me, Min asks women telling him about water woes

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Why didn't you vote for me, Min asks women telling him about water woes

Sunday, 14 April 2019 | PTI | Ahmedabad

Gujarat water supply Minister Kunvarji Bavaliya was caught on camera on Saturday telling a group of women who complained about drinking water woes in their village that they should have voted for him.

After the video, shot on mobile camera, went viral, the Minister said the question came from "uneducated women" and had been prompted by local politics.

Bavaliya quit the Congress last year to join the BJP and was made a cabinet minister. He won the ensuing Assembly by-election to Jasdan, which falls in Rajkot Lok Sabha constituency.

Campaigning for the BJP candidate at Kanesara village, he faced a group of angry villagers, most of them women, who complained that only half the village gets drinking water.

To which, the minister said only 55 per cent of the villagers had voted for him last time.

"I have the entire water resources ministry, I am in the government, and if required, I can sanction crores of rupees to arrange water supply to the village," he said.

"When I contested the election this time, I got only 55 per cent votes. Why didn't you all come together to vote for me?" he asked.            PTI

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