In a late night time improvement Friday, Congress declared its first record of 43 candidates for the upcoming Gujarat Meeting elections. The Congress has fielded Rajya Sabha MP Amee Yagnik from Ghatlodia meeting seat, which is at present being held by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel.
Although BJP is but to announce its candidates, Patel is anticipated to contest once more from the identical seat.
The Congress’s record additionally contains names of former BJP MLA and former Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) state president Kanu Kalsariya and Praful Togadiya, cousin of former VHP chief Pravin Togadia.
Kalsariya had efficiently led a farmers’ agitation towards the state authorities over making a gift of land for a cement plant by the Nirma Group, and is being fielded from his former constituency of Mahuva.
Togadiya will contest from the Patidar-dominated Varachha Highway seat in Surat.
Togadiya was additionally declared as a candidate by the Congress in 2017 from Varachha however was dropped after stiff opposition from the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS ).
Equally, the social gathering has fielded Nilesh Kumbhani from Kamrej in Surat. In 2017, Kumbhani was additionally dropped as a consequence of opposition by PAAS.
The social gathering has fielded Darshan Naik, a cooperative chief, farmer, and advocate. He was additionally a former chief of the opposition with Surat district Panchayat throughout final time period.
Former Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) President Arjun Modhwadia, who had misplaced the 2017 elections, is again within the ballot fray for the Congress from Porbandar.
In Central Gujarat, the Congress has fielded Dhruval Patel from Nadiad in Kheda whereas in Vadodara metropolis, it has declared candidates for 4 out of 5 city seats, together with sitting Vadodara Municipal Company corporator and Chief of Opposition Ami Ravat from Sayajigunj, Vadodara metropolis unit Celebration President Rutvik Joshi from Akota, Sanjay Patel from Raopura and Dr Tashvin Singh from Manjalpur.
The social gathering has additionally declared candidates for ten out of the 27 seats reserved for Scheduled Tribes (ST) together with Snehalata Govind Khant from Morva Hadaf in Panchmahal district, the place the social gathering had not contested within the 2017 polls as a consequence of an alliance with Bharatiya Tribal Celebration.
Within the ST seat of Sankheda in Chhota Udepur, it has fielded Dhiru Bhil, who had gained the constituency in 2012 and misplaced to BJP’s Abesinh Tadvi in 2017.
In Dahod, out of the six seats, the social gathering has fielded Dr Mitesh Garasiya from Jhalod ST, dropping sitting MLA Bhavesh Katara, son of controversial former BJP MP Babu Katara, who had joined the Congress forward of the 2017 election. Katara’s absence from Congress occasions because the arrest of his youthful brother, Amit, in an alleged case of homicide of a BJP chief Hiren Patel in October final 12 months, had been a sign of his aloofness from the social gathering.
Equally in Dang district , the social gathering fielded Mukesh Patel, son of former Congress MLA of Dangs Chandrabhai Patel. Mukesh’s spouse, Geeta Patel, is the chief of Opposition with Dangs district Panchayat. The BJP MLA from Dangs Vijay Patel had defeated Congress candidate Suryakant Gavit (Christian) within the final meeting elections.
