The BJP has fielded Rivaba Jadeja, wife of cricketer Ravindra Jadeja who joined the party in 2019, as the Jamnagar North candidate in the Gujarat assembly elections, leaving out the current legislator Dharmendrasinh M Jadeja.

Congress candidate Hardik Patel, of Viramgram, is also in the first list of candidates, 160 out of 182, announced today, along with seven leaders who fought for the Congress ticket last time.

In Morbi, where a collapsed bridge killed more than 130 people two weeks ago, the authorities ticketed a deputy MP and issued a ticket to a former lawmaker who allegedly jumped into the river to save some of the victims. the port. .

Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel will fight from Ghatlodia. In power in Gujarat for 27 years now, the BJP has not let out some of its leaders, many of whom, like former chief minister Vijay Rupani, have announced that they will run on their own.

Among the new recruits, Rivaba Jadeja, who has been building support from the village for months, is an engineer by training. Related to Congress veteran Hari Singh Solanki, she married Ravindra Jadeja in 2016.

Born in a Rajput family heritage and ancient royal lineage, she is an active politician in the Jamnagar-Saurashtra region. Of the Congress import, seven fought in the 2017 elections, like Pradyuman Jadeja and Ashwin Kotwal.

Hardik Patel, former president of Gujarat Congress, could not contest in 2017 because he did not meet the minimum age requirement of 25. Eighty-nine polls in the first phase of voting on December 1.

The second phase, for the remaining 93 seats out of 182, will be held on December 5, and the results will be announced on December 8 in Himachal Pradesh. The announcement of the BJP slate came in the morning after the party's election committee meeting headed by party chief JP Nadda on November 9.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and Defense Minister was among those present. Gujarat, the state of Prime Minister Modi and Amit Shah, where the BJP has been in power for 27 years, is witnessing a three-way contest this time as the AAP launched a high-decibel campaign to be the alternative to the Congress and the BJP.