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.
In a major development ahead of the Gujarat Assembly polls Former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, Former Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel and MLA Bhupendrasinh Chudasama will not be contesting the upcoming elections.
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.
Earlier on November 4, the AAP government announced Isudan Gadhvi, the party's National Joint General Secretary as its chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday will chair an important meeting of Gujarat Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) core committee members as the party gears up for the upcoming assembly elections in the State.
"We've been working continuously for the development of Gujarat. Every Gujarati is full of self-confidence, which is why when Gujaratis speak, a sound emanates from within them - we have made this Gujarat," said Prime Minister Modi in Valsad.
Ghulam Nabi on Sunday exuded confidence in the Congress party months after exiting it. He said only Congress could challenge BJP in Gujarat and Himachal assembly polls. Lambasting AAP, he said that it is merely a party of UT Delhi and can't run Punjab efficiently.