Ahead of last day of filing nominations, Cong announces final list of 37 candidates for Gujarat Assembly polls

  • Congress has given maximum number of tickets to six Muslim candidates and AAP – 2, while BJP – zero.
  • AIMIM has given two tickets to Hindus.

NE NEWS SERVICE

AHMEDABAD, NOV 16

The Congress on Wednesday announced its final list of 37 candidates, taking the total to 179, for the Gujarat Assembly elections.

The Congress has an alliance with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) for the assembly polls and the Sharad Pawar-led party is set to contest on three seats.

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Congress has given maximum number of tickets to six Muslim candidates and AAP – 2, while BJP – zero. AIMIM has given two tickets to Hindus.

The seventh list of 37 candidates included Mahendrasinh Vaghela from Bayad, Ramesh Koli from Sanand, Chirag Patel from Khambhat, Harshadbhai Ninama from Dahod (ST) and Mahesh Patel from Palanpur.

Mahendrasinh Vaghela joined the Congress last month. The 58-year-old former MLA was a Congress legislator from Bayad in north Gujarat between 2012 and 2017.

He had quit the party in August 2017, a few months before the Assembly elections, and later joined the BJP.