Gujarat's Congress Leader's wife accuses his Husband

Bharatsinh Solanki's wife has accused him for having an extramarital affair

Gujarat's Former Union minister and senior leader of Congress Bharatsinh Solanki has been accused of domestic violence by his wife Reshma Patel. She has filed a case against her husband in Borsad court in Anand.

Patel, who accused Solanki of "driving her out of the house", said that she did not want to divorce him. 

Amid the domestic dispute that has been going on for several years between the former minister and his wife, Solanki, however, has been now wanting a divorce.

Earlier, Reshma had written an open letter to senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi before his Gujarat visit, saying that Solanki was having an extramarital affair with a woman member of their party.

Reshma further accused BharatSinh of using his political influence. "He miss uses his power badly," she wrote in the letter to Rahul Gandhi. 

She alleged that he threw her out of the house after threatening to kill her.

Solanki has held the post of the chief of the Gujarat Congress twice. The party lost the last two assembly elections under his leadership in Gujarat.

 Recently, he called Congress MLAs for dinner and discussed the strategy for the next assembly polls.