Gandhinagar: The BJP released late Saturday evening its second list of Lok Sabha candidates from Gujarat. All those nominated are sitting MPS which means that the saffron party is not willing to take any risk.
In the first list, announced Thursday, party president Amit Shah’s candidature was announced for the Gandhinagar seat. He had replaced veteran leader LK Advani, who had held the seat since 1998. The party then said Friday that the veteran himself had decided to opt out of polls.
In the second list, Vinod Chavda has been repeated from the Kutch constituency while Deepsinh Rathod has been re-nominated for the Sabarkantha constituency and Kirit Solanki for the Ahmedabad West (reserved) constituency.
For the Surendranagar constituency in Saurashtra region, the party has once again gone with the sitting member Mahendra Munjpara whereas for Rajkot Mohan Kundariya has been repeated.
Madam Poonamben has been repeated for the Jamnagar constituency while for the other Saurashtra seat of Amreli, Narayanbhai Kachidiya has been fielded again. For Bhavnagar, Dr Bhartiben Shiyal has been selected for the second time while Devsinh Chauhan and Jaswantsinh Bhabhor have been re-nominated for the Kheda and the Dahod constituencies respectively.
For the Vadodara seat, the saffron party has once again decided to go with Ranjanben Bhatt who had won the bypolls held after Prime Minister Narendra Modi had vacated the Vadodara seat while retaining Varanasi.
For the Bharuch seat, Mansukhbhai Vasava has been repeated while another Vasava, Prabhubhai has been repeated for the Bardoli seat.
KC Patel has been repeated for the Valsad seat. Despite speculation that sitting MP CR Patil will not be nominated after complaints of corruption, the BJP has chosen to repeat him from the Navsari seat in south Gujarat.
IANS