The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday released its first list of candidates for the upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections, CM Bhupendra Patel will contest from Ghatlodia.
BJP National General Secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam announced the names of candidates for 160 constituencies for the first phase of elections.
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| Rivaba Jadeja wife of Ravindrasingh Jadeja |
According to inputs shared by news agency ANI, Rivaba Jadeja, wife of cricketer Ravindrasinh Jadeja, will contest from Jamnagar North constituency and Congress-turned-politician Hardik Patel has been fielded from Viramgam constituency.
Jadeja will replace Dharmendra Singh alias Hakubha Jadeja, an accused in the mob violence case since 2007.
A day earlier, the Gujarat High Court dismissed a petition seeking withdrawal of the case against the BJP MLA and others, saying that the state government should protect them "by any means and at any cost" on the pretext of larger public interest. trying to.
