{"id":315339,"date":"2019-09-30T03:56:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315339"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:56:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:56:46","slug":"ex-congress-mla-alpesh-thakor-to-contest-gujarat-bypoll-on-bjp-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ex-congress-mla-alpesh-thakor-to-contest-gujarat-bypoll-on-bjp-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex- Congress MLA Alpesh Thakor to contest Gujarat bypoll on BJP ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315340 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/alpesh-thakor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/alpesh-thakor.jpg 528w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/alpesh-thakor-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/alpesh-thakor-356x220.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday named former Congress MLA Alpesh Thakor as its candidates for upcoming Gujarat&#8217;s bypolls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He will be contesting from Radhanpur, a seat he had won on a Congress ticket in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, he resigned as MLA to join the BJP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Another Congress defector, Dhavalsinh Narendrasinh Zala, will contest on a BJP ticket from Gujarat&#8217;s Bayad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Central Election Committee had finalised the list of BJP candidates for Bye Election of Legislative Assembly of Gujarat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP on Sunday announced names of its 38 nominees for assembly by-elections to be held across several states on October 21.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Of the 38 assembly seats, six are in Gujarat, five in Kerala, 10 in Uttar Pradesh, four in Assam, two each in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Sikkim and one each in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Telangana and Rajasthan<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday named former Congress MLA Alpesh Thakor as its candidates for upcoming Gujarat&#8217;s bypolls. He will be contesting from Radhanpur, a seat he had won on a Congress ticket in 2017. However, he resigned as MLA to join the BJP. Another Congress defector, Dhavalsinh Narendrasinh Zala, will contest on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2838,2014,2026],"tags":[11832,593],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315341,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315339\/revisions\/315341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}