Cricketer Jadeja`s wife BJP candidate in Gujarat polls |
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, cricketer Ravindra Jadeja`s wife Rivaba Jadeja, and Congress turncoat Hardik Patel figure in the first list of 160 candidates announced by the ruling Bhartiya Janata Party for the State Assembly polls. The BJP has fielded Rivaba Jadeja, who joined the party in 2019, as its candidate for the Jamnagar North seat for the polls. BJP dropped the current MLA, Dharmendrasinh M. Jadeja, who is a Congress turncoat, after the High Court declined to withdraw criminal proceedings against him in a rioting case on November 9. The ruling party has fielded Congress import, Hardik Patel, from Viramgram, his home turf in the Ahmedabad district seat. Patel was the face of the Patidar quota agitation and was the working president of the Gujarat Congress before he moved to the BJP in August 2022. Another Congress turncoat is former legislator Manibhai Vaghela, who has been fielded from the Vadgam seat to take on the sitting MLA and prominent Dalit activist Jignesh Mevani of the Congress. In Gujarat polls, 89 assembly segments vote in the first phase on December 1. The second phase, for the remaining 93 of the 182 seats, will be held on December 5, and the result declared on December 8.
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