Gujarat Bypolls: Congress, BJP candidates to be declared today
As the bypolls for the six Assembly seats are round the corner, both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress will be announcing the names of their candidates by Sunday.
The last date for filing of nominations for the six seats — Kheralu, Tharad, Lunawada, Amraiwadi, Bayad and Radhanpur — is September 30.
The first four constituencies fell vacant after BJP MLAs got elected to lower house of the Parliament.
Whereas Radhanpur and Bayad seats fell vacant after Alpesh Thakor and Dhavalsinh Zala, who had won the seat respectively on a Congress ticket in 2017, left the party.
Sources said that Dharmendra Patel, Ankit Patel and Bharat Chavda from the Congress were among the front runners.