In Gujarat, where assembly elections are due later this year, the ruling BJP is pursuing a plan to embarrass the Congress and expose its weakness -it wants to prevent the re-election to the Rajya Sabha of Ahmed Patel, the political secretary to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. To ensure this, it's trying to team with local leader Shankarsinh Vaghela, who dramatically announced at his 77th birthday celebration last week that he has been ejected from the Congress which he joined in 2006.