BJP’s Gujarat Election List 2022: Cricketer Ravindra Jadeja’s wife gets ticket

According to news agency PTI, the saffron party has fielded Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel from his constituency Ghatlodia and has fielded a large number of sitting MLAs.

Among the prominent leaders, Hardik Patel, the face of the Patidar movement in the 2017 assembly elections, who later quit the Congress to join the BJP, and Rivaba Jadeja, wife of cricketer Ravindra Jadeja, are on the list.

As per the list, Hardik Patel has been fielded from Viramgam and Rivaba Jadeja from Jamnagar North.

Releasing the list, Union Minister Bhupendra Yadav said that the BJP has replaced 38 existing members, claiming that most of the replacements have been made with the consent of the existing members, as reported by PTI.

The party announced its candidates for 84 of the 89 seats where polling will be held in the first phase on December 1 and for 76 of the 93 candidates in the second phase on December 5.

Union ministers Yadav and Mansukh Mandaviya along with Gujarat BJP president CR Patil attended a press conference here as Yadav named candidates shortlisted by the party’s central election committee in their meeting on Wednesday.

Yadav said that apart from 14 women, the list includes 69 sitting MLAs and 13 and 24 members from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes respectively.

He said that many senior leaders of the state, including former Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and former Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel, have opted to contest the elections and have written letters to the party leadership in this regard.

Patil expressed confidence that the BJP would break its previous record of seat and vote share in these elections.

Apart from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh, other CEC members including party national president JP Nadda also attended the meeting to finalize the candidates.

for counting of votes gujarat assembly election Will be on 8th December.

(with PTI inputs)