Union House Minister Amit Shah to shortly file his nomination from the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The senior BJP chief is looking for re-election from the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency for a second time period. Congress has fielded its get together secretary Sonal Patel from the seat, who filed her nomination on April 16.
The Union House Minister gained the seat in 2019 and bought a vote share of 69.67 p.c. He defeated CJ Chavda of Congress who bought a vote share of 26.29 p.c. The previous BJP president gained by a margin of greater than 5 lakh votes.
The Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency consists of seven meeting segments — Gandhinagar North, Kalol, Sanand, Ghatlodia, Vejalpur, Naranpura and Sabarmati. All these meeting seats are with the BJP.
Up to now, the seat had been represented by BJP veteran and former Deputy Prime Minister L Ok Advani.
In Gujarat, voting for its 26 seats will likely be consolidated right into a single section, which is slated for the third section on Might 7.