Gandhinagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lead the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) marketing campaign for the upcoming Gujarat meeting elections, holding a number of rallies in his house state throughout his three-day go to beginning November 19.
Polling for the 182-member Gujarat legislative meeting will likely be held in two phases on December 1 and 5. Counting of votes will likely be achieved on December 8, together with Himachal Pradesh.
The Prime Minister will go to Gujarat on November 19 and spend three days there, attending not less than eight programmes in Saurashtra and south Gujarat areas that can go to polls within the first section together with Kutch, a senior BJP chief in Delhi stated. “He’ll go to the state frequently in the course of the two-phase elections,” stated the chief, requesting anonymity.
After touchdown in Gujarat on November 19, Modi will tackle a rally in Valsad. The subsequent day, the PM will go to the well-known Somnath Temple earlier than addressing 4 rallies at Veraval, Dhorarji, Amreli and Botad within the Saurashtra area. On November 21, Modi will maintain three rallies in Surendranagar, Bharuch and Navsari.
On Friday, BJP nationwide president JP Nadda, a number of Union ministers and chief ministers will tackle public conferences within the 89 meeting constituencies heading for polls within the first section, the Gujarat BJP stated in a launch.
“Nadda will maintain three rallies at Navsari, Ankleshwar and Rajkot East, whereas Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Narendra Singh Tomar and Anurag Singh Thakur will converse at a number of conferences,” the discharge stated.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath and his Madhya Pradesh counterpart Shivraj Singh Chouhan will tackle three and 4 rallies, respectively. Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union ministers VK Singh and Faggan Singh Kulaste are amongst different occasion leaders to handle rallies on Friday, the occasion launch added.
In the meantime, submitting of nominations for the second section polling for 93 seats in north and central components of Gujarat ended on Thursday. OBC chief Alpesh Thakor filed his nomination as a BJP candidate from Gandhinagar South seat on the final day. He was accompanied by chief minister Bhupendra Patel.
In 2017, Thakor received the ballot from Radhanpur seat as a Congress candidate. He defected to the BJP forward of the 2019 basic elections, however misplaced the meeting bypoll to Radhanpur. The BJP has fielded former legislator Lavingji Thakor from the seat.
Whereas the BJP and the Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP) are contesting on all 182 seats, the opposition Congress has fielded 179 candidates and left three seats for Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Social gathering (NCP).
On Thursday, Mahesh Vasava of the Bharatiya Tribal Social gathering (BTP) withdrew his nomination, avoiding the father-son conflict for Jhagadia within the Bharuch district, the place his father and BTP founder Chhotu Vasava is within the fray as an impartial candidate. The Vasava senior has represented the Scheduled Tribes (ST)-reserved seat for the seven consecutive phrases.
A big identify within the North Gujarat politics Mavjibhai Desai, filed his nominations from the Dhanera seat in Banaskantha, as an impartial, after severing his ties with the BJP. Desai had contested the 2017 meeting elections from the BJP, when he misplaced to Congress’s Nathabhai Patel with a margin of 1,894 votes. The BJP has fielded Bhagwan Chaudhari.
Madhu Srivastava, the sitting BJP MLA from the Waghodia constituency, filed his nominations as an independence contestant on Thursday. The Waghodia constituency has been a powerful bastion for Srivastava since 1995, when he contested and received as an impartial. The BJP had denied him ticket.