They said when they had gone to meet former chief minister Amarsinh Chaudhary, GPCC vice-president Kadir Pirzada and city president Thakor Naik to represent about injustice being meted out to the affected people in Sagarmpura and Gopipura they were reportedly told to ``arrange'' for at least 1,000 people for the Friday's rally.

When a survey team reach there the next day, a leader from Kadarsha ni naal area took the team to his area and made them distribute relief kits there. The Congress workers claimed out of more than 1100 affected families in their area only 250 had received kits distributed either by the district administration or by the Congress party.

Talking to Express Newsline Pirzada said that it was a stunt by a few disgruntled elements who were requesting him to readmit them into the party fold. ``It was not possible to provide relief to everybody at the cost of genuinely affected persons,'' he claimed adding that all of them would return to the party on Monday.