Gujarat Assembly Election 2022: Hardik Patel, wife of Ravindra Jadeja, nominated by BJP

For the Gujarat Assembly Election 2022, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded Indian cricket all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja's wife Rivaba Jadeja from the Jamnagar North assembly seat, and the sitting MLA Dharmendrasinh M. Ravindra Jadeja's ticket from this seat has been cut. Apart from this, Patidar leader Hardik Patel, who left Congress and joined BJP, has also been made party candidate from Viramgram. In the first list of candidates released on Thursday, candidates for 160 assembly seats out of 182 have been declared. There are a total of seven names in this list, who contested on Congress ticket in the last assembly elections.

The BJP has fielded former MLA Kantilal Amrutia, who allegedly jumped into the river to save lives at the time of the accident, after cutting the ticket of sitting MLA from Morbi assembly seat, which was in news recently due to the bridge accident.

The party has fielded Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel from Ghatlodia assembly seat. For the last 27 years, the ruling BJP in Gujarat has not fielded many of its senior leaders, including former Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. It is said that some of these senior leaders, including Rupani, have refused to contest on their own.

In Gujarat, the home state of PM Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the BJP is in power continuously for the last 27 years, and this time there is a possibility of a triangular contest in the state, because apart from the BJP and the main opposition Congress, this time the Aam Aadmi Party. (AAP) is also engaged in vigorous campaigning.