General secretaries of All India Congress Committee, Madhusudan Mistry and Mohan Prakash along with other senior leaders from the state Congress were present at the time the three-day fast was broken.
Congress leaders Shankersinh Vaghela and Arjun Modhwadia ended their fast after 75 hours on Tuesday morning in the presence of a significant audience. General secretaries of All India Congress Committee, Madhusudan Mistry and Mohan Prakash along with other senior leaders from the state Congress were present at the time the three-day fast was broken.
Like the chief minister Narendra Modi's announcement of visiting every district and observe a one-day fast there, Congress leaders also indicated that they will continue their counterattack politically at the district level.
Leader of the opposition, Shaktisinh Gohil criticized Modi's speech at the time of breaking his fast on Monday. "He said that he is not doing anything either for minority or for majority. He is right. He is not doing anything for anybody but does everything for himself. He did not even try to meet distressed and poor people who had gone there to meet him during his Sadbhavna fast," Gohil said.
Vaghela termed Modi's fast as a planned marketing and unproductive publicity stunt. He said, "We wanted to show the real power of fast, not like his five star fast. This is not Congress party's programme. We could also have invited Sonia Gandhi, the Prime Minister or Rahul Gandhi but ours was a fast, not a festival. His fast was a planned marketing gimmick for which public money was spent."
He further said, "They called minority communities but couldn't give respect to them. He called Muslims but at the same time beat them up at Naroda Patiya." AICC general secretary and In-charge of Gujarat state, Mohan Prakash said, "I want to congratulate Narendra Modi for saying that he would now work for sadbhavna. It clearly means that there was no sadbhavna in his 10-year long regime."
GPCC president Arjun Modiwadia said, "Modi said that he didn't leave his home for power and that he was a fakir. But fakirs live in jungle and not in AC rooms and they don't observe fasts in a five star manner. He removed BJP's powerful leaders like Keshubhai and others from political ground by one or the other means."
At the end of the speeches, two dalit girls Vishwa Badhiya and Priyanshi Bosiya, whose great grand fathers had participated in Mahatma Gandhi's Dandi March, gave jaggery-mixed with water to the leaders to break their fasts.
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