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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.
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  • 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.

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