New Delhi: Mukesh Dalal, BJP candidate for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Gujarat’s Surat parliamentary constituency received the seat unopposed on Monday after candidates within the fray withdrew their nominations. Taking on ‘X’, state occasion president CR Paatil on Monday congratulated Dalal for profitable the Surat Lok Sabha seat .
Paatil took to social media platform X to publish, “Congratulations and best wishes to Mukesh Dalal, candidate for Surat Lok Sabha seat, for being elected unopposed.”
“Surat offered first lotus to Prime Minister Shri Narendrabhai Modi!!,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Surat District Collector and Election Officer Saurabh Pardhi handed over Mukesh Dalal the certificates of the Member of Parliament (MP).
#WATCH | Gujarat: Mukesh Dalal, BJP’s candidate from the Surat Lok Sabha seat collects his profitable certificates after he was elected unopposed
The Congress candidate’s type was rejected by the Returning Officer, the opposite eight candidates for the seat withdrew their nominations.… pic.twitter.com/Uzslcbj8aD
— ANI (@ANI) April 22, 2024
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel additionally prolonged his needs to Dalal on the microblogging web site and wrote, “This is the beginning of the historic victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the whole of India, including Gujarat, in the Lok Sabha elections.”
Yesterday, the nomination papers of the Congress occasion’s candidate Nilesh Kumbhani have been rejected after his three proposers claimed in an affidavit to the district election officer that that they had not signed his nomination type.
The nomination type of Suresh Padsala, the Congress’ substitute candidate from Surat, was additionally invalidated, pushing Gujarat’s principal opposition occasion out of the ballot fray within the metropolis.
In his order, Returning Officer Sourabh Pardhi stated that each one different eight candidates within the fray had withdrawn their nominations besides Mukesh Dalal. Meanwhile, Congress chief Jairam Ramesh alleged that the BJP is making an attempt to “match-fix” the Surat Lok Sabha polls, which he stated they’ve received constantly since 1984 Lok Sabha elections.
He stated that the candidate being declared “elected unopposed” from Surat Lok Sabha practically two weeks earlier than polling within the state indicated that the BJP was “spooked.”
In a tweet on X, Jairam Ramesh stated, “distress and anger faced by MSME owners and businesspeople in Modi’s Anyay Kaal” has spooked the BJP so badly that they’re trying to “match-fix” Surat Lok Sabha, which they’ve received constantly since 1984 Lok Sabha elections!”
Democracy is underneath risk. Aap chronology samajhiye:
• Surat District Election Officer rejects @INCIndia’s candidate for Surat Lok Sabha, Nilesh Kumbhani’s nomination for “discrepancies in verification of signatures of three proposers”
• On comparable grounds, officers reject… https://t.co/uEnLeCGOG7
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) April 22, 2024
“Our elections, our democracy, Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Constitution – all are under a generational threat. This is the most important election of our lifetime!,” Ramesh posted.
Congress and AAP are contesting the elections in Gujarat in alliance. Congress has fielded candidates on 24 out of 26 seats, whereas AAP is contesting Bhavnagar and Bharuch.
Voting in Gujarat will happen on May 7 within the third section of the Lok Sabha elections.
