Last month, Indranil Rajguru, one of the richest Congress leaders, moved to the Aam Aadmi Party in Rajkot along with a senior local leader Vashram Sagathiya. Former Vadgam MLA, Manilal Vaghela, joined the BJP in Vadgam. Prior to that, Jairajsinh Parmar, one of the most erudite and aggressive leaders of northern Gujarat, also shifted to the BJP, severing his decades of association with Congress.