Before the lok sabha elections in gujarat, news has come out quoting sources that Mansukh Mandaviya can contest from bhavnagar and Purushottam Rupala can contest from rajkot or any other seat. Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya and Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairy minister Purushottam Rupala are currently rajya sabha MPs from gujarat and their tenure is completing. The party has not made both the leaders candidates for Rajya Sabha. In such a situation, there is speculation about contesting the lok sabha elections.
Presently Bharti Shiyal from bhavnagar and Mohan Kundariya from rajkot are bjp MPs.
rajya sabha election candidate announcement
This time bjp has announced the names of four candidates from Gujarat. bjp national president jp nadda is also included in the list. Along with him, bjp has nominated Govindbhai Dholakia, Mayankbhai nayak and Jashwantsingh Salamsingh Parmar as candidates from gujarat Rajya Sabha.
jp nadda is the national president of bjp and he is from Himachal Pradesh. jp nadda, who arrived to file nomination, said that I assure you all that whatever work will be assigned to me as an ideal MP, I will do it well and will associate myself with you as a worker. He said that the aim of all of us is that we will make nda cross 400 and we will make more than 370 bjp candidates win. Govindbhai Dholakia is a reputed diamond merchant of Surat. He is the Founder Chairman of Sri ramakrishna Exports Pvt. Ltd. If we talk about mayank nayak, he is the President of gujarat BJP's Other Backward Class (OBC) Morcha and trustee of Shamlaji vishnu Temple.