BJP fields 22 Muslim applicants for Vadodara municipalities, district and taluka panchayats

The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has fielded 22 applicants from Muslim group for the elections to district and taluka panchayats, and municipalities in Vadodara.

On February 11 night time, the BJP introduced names of applicants for 34 seats of Vadodara district panchayat, 167 seats of taluka panchayat and 88 seats of municipalities of Karjan, Dabhoi, Savli and Padra. The party has given tickets to a complete of 22 Muslim applicants –14 tickets within the district panchayat and municipalities and 7 seats in quite a lot of taluka panchayats. Of those, 5 Muslim applicants were fielded from Savli Municipality on my own.

The record has excluded kinfolk of party leaders retaining posts as in line with the party’s new bar for number of applicants. Assets mentioned that even though MLAs Shailesh Sotta and Akshay Patel nominated Shailesh Patel for the Por District Panchayat seat, the party selected former district BJP basic secretary Ashok Patel as a result of Shailesh Patel’s spouse is the APMC Chairperson. Ashok Patel additionally took place to be a candidate advisable via former Karjan MLA Satish Patel (Nishaliya), senior leaders mentioned. Ashok’s spouse Rina was once a candidate from the seat within the final time period.

Waghodia MLA Madhu Srivastav, who had sought a price ticket for his daughter Neelam from Goraj, was once additionally overlooked and Kalpana Patel was once fielded from the seat as a substitute. Shrivastav’s son Deepak’s nomination as an unbiased candidate in Vadodara Municipal Company’s Election Ward 15 was once rejected because of the two-child coverage on Monday.

Party leaders mentioned that some applicants for Padra Municipality and Shinor Taluka Panchayat seats have now not been introduced however might be executed in a while.

For the district panchayats, the party has given tickets to former district panchayat president Sudha Parmar from Mobha seat, former govt chairman Kamlesh Patel from the Pilol seat — his spouse Ramila was once a candidate from the seat in 2015 whilst Kamlesh himself received from Tundav seat.

But even so, Dilip Chauhan has been given a 2nd likelihood from the Gothda seat. The candidate from Shinor District Panchayat is Kokila Parmar — spouse of Ranjit Parmar, who was once the candidate from the seat within the final polls.