Gujarat Elections: 7-Time MLA Chhotu Vasava Not To Contest This Election, Son Steps In
NDTV
Gujarat election 2022: As per the second list of six candidates released by the tribal party for the December 1 and 5 elections, Chhotu Vasava's son Mahesh Vasava has been fielded from Jhagadia.
Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP) founder Chhotu Vasava will not contest from his traditional Assembly seat Jhagadia in Gujarat's Bharuch district, from where he has won seven times in a row, and instead his son will be in the fray from the constituency in the next month's elections.
As per the second list of six candidates released by the tribal party for the December 1 and 5 elections, Chhotu Vasava's son Mahesh Vasava has been fielded from Jhagadia.
Mahesh Vasava had won from Dediapada in Narmada district in the 2017 Assembly elections. Before that, he had emerged victorious from the same seat in 2002 (when the BTP was not in existence).
The BTP, which has pockets of influence in adivasi-dominated areas of the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Gujarat, won two Assembly seats in 2017 when it fought elections in an alliance with the Congress. However, the regional outfit later severed ties with the main opposition party.
