Gujarat elections: BJP begins process for selection of candidates

The Bharatiya Janata Party BJP on Thursday initiated a process to collect feedback from party workers at the local level in Gujarat for selection of candidates for the upcoming state Assembly pollsElections for the 182member Gujarat Assembly are due in December and the state is likely to witness a threecornered fight among the BJP opposition Congress and the Arvind Kejriwalled Aam Aadmi Party AAP this timeBeginning Thursday a threemember team of observers appointed by the BJP for each of 33 districts and five major cities in Gujarat started meeting party workersThe process will go on for three days during which the teams will take into account the views of the ticket aspirants from every constituency party members saidAs part of the process a report will be prepared by the observers on the basis of the feedback which will be submitted to the state BJP It will form the basis for the selection of candidates for the upcoming polls they addedA total of 38 teams which include current and former ministers Members of Parliament MPs senior officebearers at the national state and district levels among others have been formed for the purpose the party leaders saidFrom today the state BJP began the process of interacting with party workers invited here for allocation of tickets Workers gathered today to give their opinion for Dholka Dhandhuka and Daskroi Assembly seats in Ahmedabad district The observers appointed by the state BJP will hear the workers one by one as their turn comes BJPs Ahmedabad district president Harshad Giri told reportersAlso Read ExBJP MLA joins Cong ahead of Gujarat polls claims saffron party sidelined himJamnagar city BJP president Vimal Kagathara said as per the process followed by the BJP a panel of three observers will complete the task of taking the opinion of party workers for the two seats of Jamnagar Like the last election the BJP will win both the seats in Jamnagar through micro planning he saidParty workers gathered in large numbers to meet the observers with some of them expressing willingness to contest the electionsVadodara Mayor Keyur Rokadia said the collection of feedback by observers is a smooth democratic process carried out by the BJPAs part of this three observers are visiting here They will interact with party workers from different Assembly segments and collect their feedback They will also get a sense of the political situation at the ward level so that the process of selection of candidates is carried out smoothly I am here as part of the same Rokadia told reportersA corporator from Vadodara said I am here to claim my candidature on the basis of my capability I am connected to the people of the locality through my social work and have won the civic body polls Whoever is the candidate we will win all the seats in VadodaraMinisters Jagdish Panchal Brijesh Merja Manisha Vakil Harsh Sanghavi former ministers Bhupendrasinh Chudasama Atmaram Parmar Ganpat Vasava MPs Ranjan Bhatt Geeta Rathwa Bharti Shiyal among others are part of the teams of observersAfter collecting the data these 38 teams will submit the names of ticket seekers to the partys state leadership who will then shortlist and make a panel of three names each for every seat and send it to the central parliamentary board of the party The parliamentary board will then clear the names sources in the party saidIn the 2017 Assembly elections the BJP had won 99 seats while the Congress had bagged 77 seatsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever