BJP leaders in Delhi privately admit that the politician-builder nexus could damage the party quite seriously in a state considered to be their backyard and ‘laboratory’. What it has already done is to bring out differences within the party, described so far as a monolith in the state. In an important meeting of the party executive held in Rajkot last fortnight, the Gujarat bjp was up in arms. Party delegates who attended raised slogans against Vala at the meeting itself and, according to one member who was present, "The extent of discontent in the party has not been seen since the days of Shankersinh Vaghela."
State president Rajendrasinh Rana, also MP from Bhavnagar, said his party was hell-bent on investigating the politician-builder nexus. "There could be some connection but whatever it is, we should expose it for the good of the party," Rana told journalists after the meeting. State assembly Speaker Dhirubhai Shah, who belongs to Kutch, also has taken a dim view of both the politician-builder nexus as well as the relief work being done in the aftermath of the quake. "I will be truthful to say that the relief work being done by the state government is not adequate. A lot of people are suffering and our machinery is not geared to meet this Herculean task," he said, adding that it was still not too late to make amends.