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The predetermination to Vav Assembly spot was necessitated aft the incumbent Congress MLA from the seat, Geniben, won the Parliamentary elections from Banaskantha of which Vav is simply a segment.
WITH each preparations successful place, voting for the triangular contention for Vav by-election volition commencement astatine 7 americium Wednesday astatine a full of 321 polling stations located astatine 192 polling centers successful Banaskantha district. The voting volition extremity astatine 6 pm. The effect volition beryllium announced aft the counting of votes connected November 23.
The contention betwixt Congress campaigner and erstwhile MLA Gulabsinh Rajput, BJP’s Swarupji Thakor, and erstwhile MLA and BJP rebel campaigner Mavji Patel, who is contesting arsenic an independent, is being intimately watched. Mavji Patel, on with 4 others, was precocious suspended from the superior rank of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by Gujarat BJP president and Union Minister C R Paatil for rebelling against the enactment to contention the Vav Assembly bypoll arsenic an Independent candidate.
The electorate present comprises 3.10 lakh voters including 1,61,296 male, 1,49,478 pistillate and a 3rd sex person. For the election, 321 ballot units and arsenic galore power units and VVPATs volition beryllium used. A full of 1,412 officials and employees are connected work astatine the polling stations, stated the Chief Electoral Officer.
Of the 3.10 lakh votes successful Vav constituency, the Thakors comprise 30 per cent, followed by the Chaudhary-Patel assemblage constituting astir 17 per cent, Dalits astatine 12 per cent, and Brahmins and Rabaris 9 per cent each, among others.
Mavji Patel from the ascendant Chaudhary Patel assemblage won from Tharad successful 1990 arsenic a Janata Dal candidate. He past joined absorption Congress from wherever helium again contested from Tharad successful 2012 Assembly polls. This time, helium mislaid to the BJP. He rebelled against the Congress aft helium was denied a summons from Tharad constituency successful the 2017 Assembly elections. He contested arsenic an Independent campaigner and got implicit 42,000 votes but mislaid to BJP campaigner and erstwhile MP Parbatbhai Patel. He switched implicit to the BJP successful 2019, conscionable days earlier the Tharad Assembly bypoll successful October 2019.
National and elder leaders from some the BJP and the Congress were seen leaving nary chromatic unturned for the Vav bypoll for which a full of 10 candidates are successful the fray.
From Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel who held a Sneh Milan and a sabha successful enactment of enactment campaigner Thakor to enactment president Paatil, elder BJP leaders were deployed connected the battleground. Congress, too, showed its spot and enactment for its campaigner arsenic elder leaders including AICC General Secretary Mukul Wasnik addressed a mahasammelan adjacent arsenic MP Geniben Thakor aggressively campaigned implicit the past respective days.
The predetermination to Vav Assembly spot was necessitated aft the incumbent Congress MLA from the seat, Geniben, won the Parliamentary elections from Banaskantha of which Vav is simply a segment. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Geniben defeated BJP’s Rekha Chaudhary by implicit 30,000 votes. With Geniben moving to the Parliament, the Congress numbers successful the Gujarat Assembly person gone down to 12 — its lowest ever.
In 2022, Swarupji mislaid to Geniben portion Rajput defeated BJP campaigner Jivraj Patel successful the Tharad by canvass aft Parbatbhai Patel was elected arsenic Lok Sabha MP successful 2019. However, Rajput mislaid to BJP campaigner Shankar Chaudhary successful the 2022 authorities polls.
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