5 Congress turncoats in BJP’s listing for Meeting bypolls in Gujarat

All of the 8 bypolls have been necessitated owing to the resignations of Congress MLAs from the respective constituencies.

The BJP on Sunday declared seven applicants for the by-elections to 8 Gujarat Meeting constituencies scheduled for subsequent month. 5 of the seven applicants are Congress turncoats who had resigned from the Meeting forward of the elections to the 4 Rajya Sabha seats in June this yr.

All of the 8 bypolls have been necessitated owing to the resignations of Congress MLAs from the respective constituencies. The 8 seats are Abdasa in Kutch, Morbi, Dhari in Amreli, Gadhada in Botad, Karjan in Vadodara, Dangs, Kaprada in Valsad and Limbdi in Surendranagar.

The seven party applicants are: Pradhyumansinh Jadeja for Abdasa, Brijesh Merja for Morbi, J V Kakadiya for Dhari, Atmaram Parmar for Gadhada, Akshay Patel for Karjan, Vijay Patel for Dangs and Jitubhai Chaudhary for Kaprada. Gadhada constituency is reserved for Agenda Caste communities while, Kaprada and Dangs are reserved for Agenda Tribe communities.

The BJP is but to claim a candidate for Limbdi.

Within the 2017 Meeting elections, the 5 Congress turncoats whom BJP has mandated to battle the bypolls as its applicants had defeated the saffron party’s applicants.

Pradhymansinh Jadeja had defeated BJP’s Chhabil Patel through 9,746 votes in Abdasa constituency. Brijesh Merja had defeated BJP’s Kanti Amrutiya through 3,419 votes in Morbi constituency. J V Kakadiya had defeated BJP veteran Dilip Sanghani through 15,336 votes in Dhari constituency. In Karjan constituency, Akshay Patel had defeated BJP’s Satish Patel through 3,564 votes.

While, within the Kaprada seat, Jitu Chaudhary had defeated BJP’s Madhubhai Raut through a slander margin of 170 votes.

For the opposite two seats, Dangs and Gadhada, BJP has fielded its applicants – Vijay Patel and Atmaram Parmar – who had misplaced to Congress applicants in 2017.

Vijay Patel had misplaced to Congress’s Mangal Gavit through 768 votes on Dangs constituency. Vijay was once elected to Meeting in 2007 as a BJP candidate. Then again, he had misplaced to Gavit within the 2012 Meeting polls as neatly.

Atmaram Parmar, former minister in Gujarat and one in every of party’s distinguished Dalit leaders, had misplaced to Congress’s Pravin Maru on Gadhada constituency through 9,424 votes.

Apparently, each Gavit and Maru additionally resigned as Congerss MLAs, however have now not joined BJP officially.

The Limbdi constituency had fallen vacant following resignation of Congress MLA Somabhai Patel. Patel has officially now not joined BJP.

In 2017, Patel had defeated BJP’s Kiritsinh Rana through 14,651 votes. Party assets say that each Patel and Rana are lobbying to get the party mandate to battle the bypoll from Limbdi.

The final date to report nominations is October 16 and the time limit to withdraw nominations is October 19. With balloting on November 3, counting of votes will probably be hung on November 10.

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