Former Gujarat Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader in the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad on Thursday, Union Minister CR Paatil was quoted as saying by PTI.
Rupani was onboard Air India flight AI171 headed for London, which crashed barely a minute after taking off from the Ahmedabad airport.
“Our leader and former Chief Minister, Vijay Rupani, was going [to London] to meet his family,” Paatil was quoted as saying by PTI. “He is also a victim in this incident. May his soul rest in peace. This is a big loss for the BJP.”
Rupani is the to die in a plane crash. The first was former Chief Minister Balwantrai Mehta, whose plane by a during the 1965 India-Pakistan war.
Rupani became Gujarat’s chief minister in following BJP leader and served office , when Bhupendra Patel succeeded him.
At the time of his elevation, he was the Bharatiya Janata Party’s state president and...
