Announcing its first list of 160 candidates for next month’s Gujarat Assembly elections, the BJP has given preference to women and Congress stalwarts.
Announcing its first list of 160 candidates for next month’s Gujarat Assembly elections, the BJP has given preference to women and Congress stalwarts.
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, cricketer Ravindra Jadeja’s wife Rivaba Jadeja and Congress convert Hardik Patel figure in the first list of 160 candidates announced by the ruling party. state assembly elections,
The BJP has fielded Rivaba Jadeja, who joined the party in 2019, as its candidate for the Jamnagar North seat for the elections, with sitting MLA Dharmendrasinh M. Jadeja, who is the turncoat of the Congress, the High Court refused to withdraw the criminal proceedings against him. In a riot case on Wednesday.
The ruling party has fielded Congress-Import Hardik Patel From his home constituency Viramgram in Ahmedabad district seat. Mr Patel was the face of the Patidar reservation movement and was the working president of the Gujarat Congress before joining the ruling party in August.
Another turncoat of Congress is former MLA Manibhai Vaghela, who has been fielded from Vadgam seat against sitting MLA and prominent Dalit activist of Congress Jignesh Mevani.
Morbi got Congress turncoat
from Morbi, where Over 140 people died in bridge collapse On 29 October, the party replaced sitting MLA and minister Brijesh Merja, and instead elected Kanti Amrutia, a former MLA who lost in 2017. Mr Merja was also the turncoat of the Congress, having joined the ruling party in 2020 and was. Became a minister in 2021.
Other importers of the Congress are Pradyumansinh Jadeja, who switched in 2020, tribal MLA Ashwin Kotwal, who joined the saffron camp in July this year, Harshad Ribadia, who joined the party last month, Bhaga Brar, who joined BJP on Wednesday and Rajendrasinh Rathwa, whose father and senior most MLA of Gujarat Mohansinh Rathwa who joined on Tuesday,
Speaker Nimaben Acharya removed
The party has removed 38 sitting MLAs including outgoing Assembly Speaker Nimaben Acharya and cabinet ministers Pradeep Parmar, Rajendra Trivedi and others. The list of 160 includes 14 women, including several sitting MLAs.
The BJP’s overhaul in the state is now made clear by the removal of 38 sitting MLAs from the BJP’s first list of 160 candidates – which replaces a massive 43% of the candidates from the last election – and added to the numbers. Former senior ministers, including former deputy chief minister Nitin Patel, decided to opt out of the election.
BJP insiders say this change is due to the old adage that a lot of changes will have to be made for things to remain the same. Since the party has been in power for two-and-a-half decades and entire generations have no discernible memory of non-BJP-ruled Gujarat, the change has to be radical to counter the fatigue factor and prevent the exodus of young voters from the alternative. Out of sheer boredom.
ringing in the changes
“This change was necessary to allow young voters to vote for the BJP again – to vote for the old party but which looks very different,” said a senior BJP leader involved in party affairs.
On Wednesday, ahead of a meeting of top leaders to finalize candidates in Delhi, party veterans in Gujarat wrote to Gujarat BJP chief CR Patil about his reluctance to contest the upcoming polls.
“Senior leaders of the party, including former chief ministers Vijay and Nitinbhai Patel, had expressed that they would not contest the elections and would work for the party,” Bhupendra Yadav said at the briefing in New Delhi.
Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, Pradeepsinh Jadeja, Kaushik Patel, Saurabh Patel and RC Faldu are among other leaders who have been a minister in the previous Rupani government and have withdrew from contesting the elections.
polling dates
In Gujarat elections, 89 assembly constituencies go to the polls in the first phase on 1 December. For 93 of the 182 seats in the second phase, polling will be held on December 5, and the result will be declared on December 8. Himachal Pradesh,
The entry of the Aam Aadmi Party has added an extra dimension to the state’s traditional bipolar elections, the BJP’s main challenger to the Congress left in a new round by its leaders as it works to regroup.