Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released the first list of candidates for the Gujarat Assembly elections on Thursday. The party has announced the names of candidates for 160 seats for the first phase. According to the list, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel will contest from Ghatlodhiya. At the same time, Hardik Patel, who joined the BJP after rebelling from Congress, has been given ticket by the party from Jamnagar North to Viramgam seat and Rivaba Jadeja, wife of Indian cricketer Ravindra Jadeja.

BJP has announced the names of 84 candidates for the 89 seats to be held in the first phase. At the same time, in the second phase, the names of 76 candidates have been announced for 93 seats. Let us tell you that Rivaba Jadeja, wife of Indian cricketer Ravindra Jadeja, has been given ticket from Jam Nagar North. At the same time, former MLA Kantilal Amrit has been fielded from Morbi assembly seat. Kantilal Amrit is considered a strong leader of BJP. Let us also tell that Kantilal had jumped into the river to save the people during the Amrit Morbi bridge accident.

It is worth noting that former Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, former Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel, senior leaders Bhupendra Singh Chudasama and Pradeep Singh Jadeja, Saurabh Patel have already announced not to contest elections before. It goes on to say that the Bharatiya Janata Party has been in power in Gujarat for the last 27 years. At the same time, looking at the last election, the BJP got less seats than in the 2017 assembly elections.