Former Gujarat CM Nitin Patel Opts Out Of Lok Sabha Race For Mehsana Seat

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Former Gujarat CM Nitin Patel Opts Out Of Lok Sabha Race For Mehsana Seat


The ongoing development of BJP candidates stepping down from their candidacies persists, with Nitin Patel, the BJP nominee for the Mehsana Lok Sabha seat, declaring his withdrawal from electoral politics on Sunday. Patel conveyed his choice by means of a social media publish on ‘X’. This transfer follows comparable selections from different BJP MPs together with Gautam Gambhir, Jayant Sinha, and Harsh Vardhan, who additionally opted out of political obligations lately. 

On a publish on the microblogging web site, Nitin Patel talked about that the candidates for 15 Lok Sabha seats within the state have been introduced, whereas the choice course of for the Mehsana Lok Sabha candidate remains to be underway. Earlier right this moment, Harsh Vardhan, a former Union Minister and the present BJP MP, revealed his option to retire from politics. This announcement adopted the discharge of the BJP’s first listing of Lok Sabha election candidates, whereby Harsh Vardhan was not included. 

The former cricketer and MP of East Delhi, Gautam Gambhir on Saturday introduced his dismissal from politics by means of a tweet hours earlier than the BJP’s first listing of candidates was launched. After which Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh MP Jayant Sinha conveyed his intention to chorus from taking part within the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. 

The BJP on Saturday night introduced the primary listing of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, comprising 195 people unfold throughout 16 States and two Union Territories. Among the 195 candidates, 107 come from backward communities, together with 27 from Scheduled Castes, 18 from Scheduled Tribes, and 57 from different backward lessons (OBCs). The listing contains 28 feminine candidates and 47 candidates below the age of fifty. Abdul Salam, a Muslim candidate, has been nominated to contest from Malappuram in Kerala.



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