The high-voltage political campaign full of strikes and counter-strikes had come to an end on November 10, setting up the stage for the voters to cast their vote to elect the new government via their votes which will be counted on December 8.
Months of work on the candidates, hours and hours of assessing the work done by them on the ground and winnability are some of the key factors that have been put into effect before the BJP arrived at its list of candidates for the upcoming Gujarat Assembly polls.
Solanki, the sitting BJP MLA representing the Matar Assembly seat in Gujarat's Kheda district, joined the Arvind Kejriwal-led party a day after the ruling party released the first list of candidates for the upcoming elections.
All the 22 members of BJP election committee are present in meeting, where several names are being considered for deciding its candidates for the 250 councillor seats for which voting is slated to be held on December four.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday announced the first list of candidates for 160 candidates out of the 182 constituencies, which includes 14 female candidates for the upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections.
The sources said that the top decision body of the saffron party has finalised most of the tickets out of the 182 assembly seats and the remaining powers have been vested with the party president JP Nadda to take a call on the remaining seats.
Gujarat has been a BJP bastion for decades together. BJP is seeking its sixth term in office. Before becoming Prime Minister Narendra Modi was Gujarat's longest-serving Chief Minister from 2001 to 2014.