BJP announces first list of 15 Lok Sabha seat candidates of Gujarat

New Delhi: Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party today announced the first list of candidates for upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Out of 195 candidates announced today, 15 are from Gujarat. The list of them is presented below:

Gujarat candidates (15 out of 26) –

Kutch – Vinod Chavda (repeat on SC reserved seat)

Banaskantha – Smt Dr. Rekhaben Hiteshbhai Chaudhary

Patan – Bahratsinh Dabhi (repeat)

Gandhinagar – Amitbhai Shah (repeat)

Ahmedabad West(SC) – Dineshbhai Makwana (a new face, former Deputy Mayor of city)

Rajkot – Parshottam Rupala (Rajya Sabha MP, Union cabinet minister)

Porbandar – Mansukh Mandaviya (Rajya Sabha MP, Union cabinet minister)

Jamnagar – Poonamben Madam (repeat)

Anand – Miteshbhai Patel (repeat)

Kheda – Devusinh Chauhan (repeat)

Panchmahal – Rajpalsinh Mahendrasinh Jadav

Dahod – Jashwantsinh Bhabhor (repeat)

Bharuch – Mansukh Vasava (repeat)

Bardoli – Prabhubhai Vasava (repeat)

Navsari – CR Patil (repeat)

Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today announced the list of 15 candidates for upcoming Lok Sabha election. Gujarat has total 26 Lok Sabha seats. The first list consists 15 Lok Sabha seats.

Among those repeated are Vinod Chavda on Kutch seat which is reserved for Schedule Caste candidates, Bharatsinh Dabhi on the Patan seat, Amitbhai Shah on the Gandhinagar seat, Poonamben Madam on Jamnagar seat, Miteshbhai Patel on Anand seat, Devusinh Chauhan on Kheda seat, Mansukh Vasava on Bharuch seat, Prabhubhai Vasava on Bardoli seat and CR Patil on Navsari seat.

Dinesh Makwana (Karnavati city unit BJP spokesperson) and former Deputy Mayor of AMC is the new face for the Ahmedabad (West) seat which is reserved for Schedule Caste candidates. BJP has dropped incumbent MP Dr. Kirit Solanki. Rajpalsinh Mahendrasinh Jadav is also a new face. He is the former District Panchayat president of Panchmahal. He will contest from Panchmahal Lok Sabha seat. Dr. Rekhaben Hiteshbhai Chaudhary, granddaughter of Banas Dairy’s founder Galbabhai Chaudhary is another new face. She has been fielded from the Banaskantha seat.

Union cabinet ministers Parshottam Rupala and Mansukh Mandaviya are fielded from Rajkot and Porbandar Lok Sabha seats. NJ

The seats for which candidates are yet to be announced are Sabarkantha, Mahesana, Ahmedabad East, Vadodara, Chhota Udepur, Surat, Valsad, Bhavnagar, Amreli, Junagadh and Surendranagar.

BJP has also announced Lalubhai Patel’s name as the candidate of the Dadra Nagar Haveli (UT) seat.
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