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Teluguvaadu Junior Artist Username: Teluguvaadu Post Number: 349 Registered: 11-2012 Posted From: 61.3.72.53 Rating: N/A |
The Bharatiya Janata Party, which has been controlling the municipality for over a decade, saw all its sitting members refusing to seek re-election on the party's ticket on the last day of filing nominations for the November 29 elections. Some BJP leaders chose to file papers as Independent candidates. Nitin Patel, a senior minister in the Anandiben Patel Cabinet and state government spokesman, was the BJP in-charge for Mehsana but he could not persuade local leaders to contest the municipal elections. Mehsana, the home district of the chief minister, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and BJP chief Amit Shah, has remained a BJP stronghold ever since 1984 when it provided the party one of the two Lok Sabha seats it won in the country after the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi. The agitating Patidars have displayed banners in many housing societies across the state, advising the BJP "not to come to beg for votes".  http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/bjp-fails-to-find-candidates- for-a-gujarat-municipality-1242298 |