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It’s rare for a party president, especially in a disciplined unit like the BJP, to criticise bureaucratic reshuffle, a chief ministerial prerogative. So, when Gujarat BJP president C.R. Patil recently said that IAS officer Banchhanidhi Pani, who was transferred from Surat, should have been made municipal commissioner of Ahmedabad instead of Vadodara, it created a stir. It came as an endorsement of Pani’s public displeasure at his posting. But then Pani is no ordinary babu. When Vijay Rupani was CM, he was the Rajkot municipal commissioner and his wife’s camaraderie with Rupani’s wife Anjali was the talk of the town.