With backing of heavyweights like Congress MP Geniben Thakor and Gujarat Meeting Speaker Shankar Chaudhary for his or her respective candidates together with former MLA and a neighborhood strongman, Mavjibhai Patel, contesting as an Unbiased, a complete of 10 candidates are within the fray for the Vav Meeting Constituency by-election on November 13.
The Vav seat of Banaskantha was vacated by Geniben after her win within the Lok Sabha elections earlier this yr, making her the one Congress candidate from the state to emerge victorious. She had received towards the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Rekha Chaudhary by over 30,000 votes.
Although the bypoll is being considered as a troublesome contest predominantly between Congress’s candidate Gulabsinh Rajput, an higher caste, and BJP’s Swarupji Thakor, an OBC, insiders stated that the ruling occasion is worried about Mavjibhai, an Anjana Patel, consuming into the BJP’s vote share among the many Chaudhary group.
Mavji, who has a substantial affect over the Chaudhary group to which he belongs, was elected to Janata Dal from Vav-Tharad seat in 1990.
Whereas there are already talks about Shankar Chaudhary’s seemingly absence from October 4 to eight, Geniben is slated to launch her marketing campaign for Gulabsinh Rajput beginning Thursday.
The Speaker, accompanied by Congress’s Danilimda MLA Shailesh Parmar and BJP’s Mandvi MLA Aniruddh Dave as observers, will symbolize Gujarat within the Commonwealth Parliamentary Affiliation assembly to be held at Sydney, Australia, from November 3 to eight.
On November 2, Chaudhary will attend a New 12 months ‘Sneh Milan’ in his constituency Tharad in Banaskantha.
One candidate — Chetankumar Oza — is contesting from Bharatiya Jan Parishad, which can be abbreviated as BJP.
The verification of the candidatures was carried out on October 28 whereas the deadline for withdrawal of nomination papers ended Wednesday.
As on October 15, a complete of three,10,681 voters are set to vote at a complete 321 polling stations in Vav meeting constituency.
BJP candidate Thakor is a veteran from Banaskantha who fought towards Congress’s Geniben within the 2022 Meeting elections from the Vav constituency. Thakor, nevertheless, misplaced to Geniben by a margin of 15,601 votes.
Rajput is a Kshatriya, and he shall be contesting a seat seen as dominated by the Thakors, each being OBC candidates — a class that contains greater than 18% of the constituency’s votes. Rajput had received the meeting election to the Tharad constituency in 2019, serving one time period.
The by-election shall be essential for the Congress which misplaced its place as chief of Opposition within the 2022 Gujarat Meeting elections, profitable solely 17 of 182 seats it contested together with ally Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in its worst efficiency within the state.
