New Delhi: Mukesh Dalal, BJP candidate for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Gujarat’s Surat parliamentary constituency received the seat unopposed on Monday after candidates within the fray withdrew their nominations. Taking over ‘X’, state occasion president CR Paatil on Monday congratulated Dalal for successful the Surat Lok Sabha seat .
Paatil took to social media platform X to put up, “Congratulations and greatest needs to Mukesh Dalal, candidate for Surat Lok Sabha seat, for being elected unopposed.”
“Surat provided first lotus to Prime Minister Shri Narendrabhai Modi!!,” he mentioned.
In the meantime, Surat District Collector and Election Officer Saurabh Pardhi handed over Mukesh Dalal the certificates of the Member of Parliament (MP).
#WATCH | Gujarat: Mukesh Dalal, BJP’s candidate from the Surat Lok Sabha seat collects his successful certificates after he was elected unopposed
The Congress candidate’s kind was rejected by the Returning Officer, the opposite eight candidates for the seat withdrew their nominations.… pic.twitter.com/Uzslcbj8aD
— ANI (@ANI) April 22, 2024
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel additionally prolonged his needs to Dalal on the microblogging web site and wrote, “That is the start of the historic victory of the Bharatiya Janata Celebration in the entire of India, together with Gujarat, within the Lok Sabha elections.”
Yesterday, the nomination papers of the Congress occasion’s candidate Nilesh Kumbhani have been rejected after his three proposers claimed in an affidavit to the district election officer that they’d not signed his nomination kind.
The nomination type of Suresh Padsala, the Congress’ substitute candidate from Surat, was additionally invalidated, pushing Gujarat’s principal opposition occasion out of the ballot fray within the metropolis.
In his order, Returning Officer Sourabh Pardhi mentioned that each one different eight candidates within the fray had withdrawn their nominations besides Mukesh Dalal. In the meantime, Congress chief Jairam Ramesh alleged that the BJP is attempting to “match-fix” the Surat Lok Sabha polls, which he mentioned they’ve received constantly since 1984 Lok Sabha elections.
He mentioned that the candidate being declared “elected unopposed” from Surat Lok Sabha practically two weeks earlier than polling within the state indicated that the BJP was “spooked.”
In a tweet on X, Jairam Ramesh mentioned, “misery and anger confronted by MSME homeowners and businesspeople in Modi’s Anyay Kaal” has spooked the BJP so badly that they’re trying to “match-fix” Surat Lok Sabha, which they’ve received constantly since 1984 Lok Sabha elections!”
Democracy is underneath risk. Aap chronology samajhiye:
• Surat District Election Officer rejects @INCIndia’s candidate for Surat Lok Sabha, Nilesh Kumbhani’s nomination for “discrepancies in verification of signatures of three proposers”
• On comparable grounds, officers reject… https://t.co/uEnLeCGOG7
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) April 22, 2024
“Our elections, our democracy, Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Structure – all are underneath a generational risk. That is an important election of our lifetime!,” Ramesh posted.
Congress and AAP are contesting the elections in Gujarat in alliance. Congress has fielded candidates on 24 out of 26 seats, whereas AAP is contesting Bhavnagar and Bharuch.
Voting in Gujarat will happen on Could 7 within the third part of the Lok Sabha elections.
