BJP in Gujarat wins two seats of Municipal Corporation unopposed

Ahmedabad/ Surat

There are some major developments regarding the municipal corporation elections(polling for which is scheduled to take place on 22 November) today.

In Vatava ward of Ahmedabad, BJP candidate Girish Patel’s candidature was canceled due to technical reasons, as his proposer’s name was not found in voting list. Patel was replaced with Pankaj Solanki as BJP candidate.

In another development, BJP has won one seat in Surat Municipal Corporation election unopposed. Party’s Other Backward Class(OBC) reserved seat candidate from ward number 02 Smt Urvashi Animeshbhai Mali was elected unopposed days before polling on 22nd November.

Mali’s unopposed victory became possible after rejection of nomination form of Congress candidate Karuna Rathod and withdrawal of candidature by an independent candidate Jetun Diwan. Mali’s victory was celebrated by local BJP workers including Surat Lok Sabha MP with crackers, slogan chanting and flowers.

Reacting to this, the state BJP general secretary Mansukh Mandaviya in his tweet said:”Well beginning is half done.”

BJP received further good news from Vadodara where Congress and independent candidates fielded against city BJP president Bharat Dangar withdrew their nominations to make Dangar victorious unopposed. Interestingly, the Congress candidate against Dangar Prafulgiri had joined Congress party just before a few days after leaving BJP.

In one more interesting development, Congress party has pulled out its some candidates in Jamnagar Municipal Corporation election in support of ‘Sardar Patel party’ which is represented by agitating Patidar community groups.

Coming to Municipality(Nagarpalika) polls, Four candidates in one ward of Dhrangadhra municipality won the election uncontested.

In Unjha town which is completely dominated by Kadva Patidar community, none from BJP could file nomination for to contest municipality election due to boycott of local Patidars who are sad with the state government due to arrests of several Patidars in serious cases of crime in connection with Patidar violence in the month of August.

In Navsari town of south Gujarat, Congress party claimed its proposed candidate was abducted by rivals. Congress party replaced the candidate with fresh face Dhaval Patel.

– DeshGujarat