Gandhinagar: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday declared 7 Lok Sabha candidates for Gujarat, among which one of new names was Jashubhai Rathwa’s.

Jashubhai Rathwa started as Sarpanch of Vasedi gram panchayat in Chhota Udepur taluka. He became district BJP chief, Adijati Vikas Corporation’s Director and Vice President of Gujarat BJP Schedule Tribe morcha.

Rathwa had contested assembly election in 2017 unsuccessfully. He lost this election by 1100 votes. Rathwa had also contested Chhota Udepur taluka panchayat seat in 2007-08 unsuccessfully. He lost this election by 87 votes.

Rathwa had sulked and resigned from all posts of BJP about 11 months ago, but later he was convinced to continue by party leaders. DeshGujarat

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