Jamnagar North Election 2022: Can Rivaba Jadeja make the lotus bloom once more?

Jamnagar North, Gujarat election 2022: Jamnagar North meeting seat falls below the Jamnagar Lok Sabha constituency, which has been with the BJP since 2014. A part of the Jamnagar district, this seat got here into existence in 2008. Within the first election held in 2012, the Congress’ Dharmendrasinh Jadeja bagged the constituency with 50.53 per cent votes. BJP’s Mulubhai Ayar Bela got here second with 42.78 per cent votes.

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Within the subsequent election, Dharmendrasinh contested on the saffron get together ticket and gained the seat for the BJP. This time, he garnered 58.95 per cent votes in opposition to 30 per cent of Congress’ Ahir Jivanbhai Karubhai Kumbharvadiya. 

For this election, the BJP eliminated its sitting MLA to discipline Rivaba Jadeja, the spouse of cricketer Ravindra Jadeja. 

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Rivaba’s candidature from Jamnagar, dwelling of Reliance’s largest refinery, was introduced simply days after Parimal Nathwani, Director-Company Affairs at Reliance Industries Restricted, appealed to all events to provide tickets to educated and civilised leaders for peace, security, prosperity, and improvement.

Nathwani, in a tweet, urged all of the political events to not give tickets to candidates who would enable crime to flourish in Jamnagar.

Rivaba, who’s opening her political innings, is taking over Bipendrasinh Jadeja of the Congress and Karsanbhai Karmur of the Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP). She, nevertheless, is dealing with opposition from her family members as her husband Ravindra Jadeja’s father Aniruddhsinh Jadeja is backing the Congress.

The Jamnagar Lok Sabha constituency has largely been with the saffron get together as BJP’s Chandresh Patel Kordia gained 5 consecutive phrases from 1989 to 2004. In 2004, Congress’ Ahir Vikrambhai Arjanbhai Madam Yadav gained the seat and retained it until 2014. In 2014, the BJP once more gained again the seat from Congress.

In 2017, the saffron get together gained three of seven meeting segments falling below the Jamnagar parliamentary constituency, whereas one seat was vacant. The BJP was, nevertheless, main in all segments within the parliamentary elections held in 2019. Going by that statistics, Rivaba might sail by and retain the seat for the BJP. 

Within the final election, the competition was bipolar between the BJP and Congress. Nevertheless, this time, the AAP’s entry has made the competition three-way in Gujarat. Jamnagar North will vote in Section 1 on December 1 (Thursday).