Gujarat polls: BJP releases third list of candidates, Alpesh Thakor to contest from Gandhinagar South
The Hindu
With the third list, the BJP has so far declared 178 candidates for the two-phase polls to the 182-member Assembly.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released its third list of 12 candidates on November 14, 2022 night for the next month's Gujarat Assembly elections in which it has fielded OBC community leader Alpesh Thakor from Gandhinagar South seat instead of Radhanpur in North Gujarat from where he had lost a bypoll.
With the third list, the BJP has so far declared 178 candidates for the two-phase polls to the 182-member Assembly.
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Alpesh Thakor had won from the Radhanpur Assembly seat in 2017 on a Congress ticket, but resigned in 2019 as an MLA and joined the BJP. In the the subsequent bypoll, he lost to the Congress from Radhanpur.
The BJP has now fielded him from Gandhinagar South.
The latest list includes two women, taking the number of female candidates fielded by the BJP to 17 so far. The saffron outfit has fielded Ritaben Patel from Gandhinagar North and Rajul Desai from Patan.
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