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Congress fields MLA against BJP president

PTI
Published : Apr 4, 2019, 1:04 am IST
Updated : Apr 4, 2019, 1:04 am IST

The party has fielded its Limbdi MLA Soma Patel from Surendranagar seat to take on BJP’s Mahendra Munjpara.

BJP president Amit Shah (Photo: ANI)
 BJP president Amit Shah (Photo: ANI)

Ahmedabad: The Congress has fielded its MLA C.J. Chavda against BJP president Amit Shah from Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat.

The Opposition party released a list of names late Tuesday night in which it mentioned four more candidates from the state, including Mr Chavda.

With this, the Congress has so far declared 18 candidates in Gujarat, where the last date of filing of nomination papers is April 4.

Polling in all 26 Lok Sabha seats in the state will be held on April 23 and the results will be declared on May 23.

Mr Chavda, a two-time MLA from Gandhinagar-North Assembly seat, said he would give a tough fight to Mr Shah in the Lok Sabha polls.

Besides Mr Chavda, the Congress has also given ticket to Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti convener Geeta Patel, a loyalist of Congress leader Hardik Patel, from Ahmedabad-East Lok Sabha seat.

The party has fielded its Limbdi MLA Soma Patel from Surendranagar seat to take on BJP’s Mahendra Munjpara.

It has also given ticket to Murubhai Kandoriya fro-m Jamnagar, from where party leader Hardik Patel earlier planned to contest, against BJP’s Poonam Madam.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to accord urgent hearing to Hardik Patel’s plea seeking stay on his conviction in the 2015 rioting case. The denial virtually dashed his hopes of contesting the poll from Jamnagar as the last date for filing nominations for seats in the state is on Thursday.

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