BJP Candidates List Gujarat Elections 2022 - 160 names announced; many sitting MLAs dropped - Tough decision!
BJP Gujarat elections candidate full list, contestants names 2022: BJP on Thursday released its first list of candidates for Gujarat Assembly polls. CM Bhupendra Patel is set to contest from Ghatlodia. Earlier, it was reported that BJP is likely to finalise all candidates on Wednesday. The top BJP leadership was deliberating on Wednesday on the candidates for the upcoming Gujarat Assembly polls, where the party is eyeing a victory for a seventh consecutive time. The central election committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), also comprising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and party president J P Nadda, had met in Delhi in the evening to finalise the candidates. Polling will be held in two phases in Gujarat on December 1 and 5. Here are all the details on BJP Gujarat Election Candidate List 2022:-
BJP Gujarat elections candidate full list, contestants names 2022: BJP on Thursday released its first list of candidates for Gujarat Assembly polls. CM Bhupendra Patel is set to contest from Ghatlodia. Earlier, it was reported that BJP is likely to finalise all candidates on Wednesday. The top BJP leadership was deliberating on Wednesday on the candidates for the upcoming Gujarat Assembly polls, where the party is eyeing a victory for a seventh consecutive time. The central election committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), also comprising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and party president J P Nadda, had met in Delhi in the evening to finalise the candidates. Polling will be held in two phases in Gujarat on December 1 and 5. Here are all the details on BJP Gujarat Election Candidate List 2022:-
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BJP names Hardik Patel as its candidate from Viramgam and Rivaba Jadeja, wife of cricketer Ravindra Jadega, from Jamnagar North in Gujarat poll.
Union ministers Bhupender Yadav and Mansukh Mandaviya were joined by Gujarat BJP president C R Patil at a press conference here where Yadav named the candidates selected by the party's Central Election Committee at its meeting on Wednesday. Yadav said the list includes 69 sitting MLAs, indicating that a large number of incumbent legislators has been dropped.
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The entry of the Aam Aadmi Party has added an extra dimension to the state's traditional bipolar elections, with the BJP's main challenger Congress hit by a fresh round of desertion by its leaders as it works to regroup.
The BJP is hopeful of maintaining its uninterrupted winning streak in the state assembly polls since 1995.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other CEC members, including Union ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh besides party's national president J P Nadda, were in the meeting to finalise the candidates.
The list includes 14 women, and 13 and 24 members from the Schedules Castes and Schedules Tribes respectively.
The list includes 14 women, and 13 and 24 members from the Schedules Castes and Schedules Tribes respectively.
Yadav said the list includes 69 sitting MLAs, indicating that a large number of incumbent legislators has been dropped.
Union ministers Bhupender Yadav and Mansukh Mandaviya were joined by Gujarat BJP president C R Patil at a press conference here where Yadav named the candidates selected by the party's Central Election Committee at its meeting on Wednesday.
The party named its candidates for 84 of the 89 seats which will go to the polls in the first phase on December 1 and 76 of 93 candidates going to the polls in the second phase on December 5.
The BJP on Thursday released its first list of 160 candidates for the two-phase elections to the 182-member Gujarat Assembly, fielding Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel from his constituency Ghatlodia and dropping a number of sitting MLAs.
BJP names 160 candidates for Gujarat Assembly polls in first list
First List of Candidates by BJP for Gujarat Assembly Elections 2022: Cricketers Ravindra Jadeja's wife Rivaba from Jamnagar North
CM Bhupendra Patel to contest the elections from Ghatlodiya constituency
BJP releases its first list of candidates for Gujarat Assembly polls, CM Bhupendra Patel to contest from Ghatlodia.