Congress Fields MLA Chavda Against Amit Shah in Gandhinagar
Chavda, a two-time MLA from Gandhinagar-North Assembly seat, said he will give a tough fight to Shah.
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The Congress has fielded its MLA C J Chavda against BJP president Amit Shah from Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat.
The opposition party released a list of names late on Tuesday, 2 April, night in which it mentioned four more candidates from the state, including Chavda.
Polling in all 26 Lok Sabha seats in the state will be held on 23 April and the results will be declared on 23 May.
Chavda, a two-time MLA from Gandhinagar-North Assembly seat, said he will give a tough fight to Shah in the Lok Sabha polls.
The party has fielded its Limbdi MLA Soma Patel from Surendranagar seat to take on BJP's Mahendra Munjpara.
It has also given ticket to Murubhai Kandoriya from Jamnagar seat, from where party leader Hardik Patel earlier planned to contest, against BJP's Poonam Madam.
The denial virtually dashed his hopes of contesting the Lok Sabha poll from Jamnagar as the last date for filing nominations for seats in the state is on Thursday.
The Congress state unit is expecting announcement of candidates for the remaining seats by tonight.
Earlier in the day, Leader of Opposition in the Gujarat Assembly Paresh Dhanani filed his nomination from Amreli Lok Sabha seat, though his name has not been officially declared so far.
Dhanani claimed he was asked by the party high command to file his nomination.
The BJP has so far announced 25 candidates and is yet to declare its nominee from Ahmedabad-East seat.
It won all the 26 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
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