The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has fielded 22 candidates from Muslim neighborhood for the elections to district and taluka panchayats, and municipalities in Vadodara.
On February 11 night, the BJP introduced names of candidates for 34 seats of Vadodara district panchayat, 167 seats of taluka panchayat and 88 seats of municipalities of Karjan, Dabhoi, Savli and Padra. The social gathering has given tickets to a complete of twenty-two Muslim candidates –14 tickets within the district panchayat and municipalities and 7 seats in numerous taluka panchayats. Of these, 5 Muslim candidates have been fielded from Savli Municipality alone.
The record has excluded kinfolk of social gathering leaders holding posts as per the social gathering’s new bar for choice of candidates. Sources mentioned that though MLAs Shailesh Sotta and Akshay Patel nominated Shailesh Patel for the Por District Panchayat seat, the social gathering selected former district BJP common secretary Ashok Patel as a result of Shailesh Patel’s spouse is the APMC Chairperson. Ashok Patel additionally occurred to be a candidate really helpful by former Karjan MLA Satish Patel (Nishaliya), senior leaders mentioned. Ashok’s spouse Rina was a candidate from the seat within the final time period.
Waghodia MLA Madhu Srivastav, who had sought a ticket for his daughter Neelam from Goraj, was additionally ignored and Kalpana Patel was fielded from the seat as an alternative. Shrivastav’s son Deepak’s nomination as an impartial candidate in Vadodara Municipal Corporation’s Election Ward 15 was rejected as a result of two-child coverage on Monday.
Party leaders mentioned that some candidates for Padra Municipality and Shinor Taluka Panchayat seats haven’t been introduced however shall be accomplished shortly.
For the district panchayats, the social gathering has given tickets to former district panchayat president Sudha Parmar from Mobha seat, former govt chairman Kamlesh Patel from the Pilol seat — his spouse Ramila was a candidate from the seat in 2015 whereas Kamlesh himself gained from Tundav seat.
Besides, Dilip Chauhan has been given a second likelihood from the Gothda seat. The candidate from Shinor District Panchayat is Kokila Parmar — spouse of Ranjit Parmar, who was the candidate from the seat within the final polls.