With the announcement of Vav Assembly by-election, political activity has intensified, many candidates are lobbying for tickets in BJP and Congress.
More than 70 candidates and their supporters arrived to file nominations.
BJP has today started the process of persuasion by BJP inspector Janak Patel, Darshanaben Vaghela, Yamal Vyas in Lohana Samajni Wadi of Bhabhar, where more than 70 candidates and their supporters have come to register their candidature. While the political temperature is hot regarding Vav assembly by-election, this time BJP and Congress parties do not want to leave any stone unturned to capture this assembly seat.
Swaroopji Thakor, who lost the election from Jeniben in 2022, also came to seek ticket again.
While many ticket aspirants are lobbying hard to get tickets, BJP inspectors Janak Patel, Darshana Vaghela and Yamal Vyas reached Lohana Wadi in Bhabhar today to inquire about the well being of the candidates. Where more than 70 candidates have come to stake claim with their supporters. In which many leaders including Swaroopji Thakor, Naikaben Prajapati, Amiram Asal, Piraji Thakor, Gajendra Singh Rana, Khemjibhai Thakor, Taraben Thakor, Kanjibhai Rajput, who lost the election from Geniben in 2022, have come to register their candidature.
Will BJP choose candidates like this?
Where three observers of BJP are calling the candidates one by one and listening to them and taking detailed information. However, the observers will listen to all the candidates till the evening and then prepare a report and send it to the state level and after that after looking at several equations, BJP will select the candidate.
3 lakh voters will exercise their franchise
Let us tell you that in 2017, sitting MP Ganiben Thakor had also defeated senior Gujarat BJP leader Shankar Choudhary from Vav seat, after which in the 2022 assembly elections, Ganiben Thakor once again defeated BJP's Swaroopji Thakor. After this, this seat became vacant after Ganiben became MP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Let us tell you that there are about 3 lakh voters in Vav assembly seat and most of these voters are from Thakor community, while 17 percent are from Choudhary Patel community, 12 percent are from Dalit community, 9 percent are from Brahmin community and 9 percent are from Dalit community. To Rabari community. However, from 1998 to 2022, this seat has mostly gone to the Congress, hence this seat is considered a Congress stronghold.