Nov 27, 2022: Amit Shah: BJP made Gujarat free from Communal Riots
November 27, 2022: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal, the National Convenor of AAP are scheduled to address election rallies in Surat. Surat sends 12 MLAs out of 182 members of the State Legislative Assembly.
Union Home Minister was scheduled to address an election rally at Mehsana Nagar in Vadodara city. Even though there was a crowd of citizens and BJP workers at the site of the meeting, he did not turn up and the meeting was addressed by local leaders of BJP only.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge addressed an election rally at Dediapada. He said,” If Congress had not worked in the last 70 years, we would not have seen a democracy today.”
Hema Malini and Smriti Irani are two prominent Star Campaigners from BJP. Both BJP and Congress have given tickets to more women in 2022 as compared with 2017. But the women candidates are only 8.6% of the total number of candidates, who are contesting the Gujarat Elections of 2022.
WOMEN CANDIDATES: Only 139 women candidates are in the fray, out of a total of 1,621 contestants.
The BJP has given tickets to 18 women candidates as against 12 in 2017, while the Congress has fielded 14 women although that figure was 10 in the last Assembly election. The two parties have also accommodated more number of women candidates from Dalit and tribal communities this time.
Among other parties, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which has fielded its candidates in 181 out of 182 constituencies, has given tickets to only 6 women candidates. Three of them are contesting on Scheduled Tribe (ST)-reserved seats.
The All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), which is contesting on 13 seats, has given tickets to two women, including one from Muslim and another from Dalit community. It has fielded one Zainabbibi Shaikh from Vejalpur and Kaushikaben Parmar from Dani Limda. Both the seats are in Ahmedabad city.
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has fielded 13 women candidates for the upcoming polls. It is fighting 101 seats.
Of the 139 women candidates, 56 are contesting as independents.
— By Sachin Ashal