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Wednesday, 26 July 2017

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Top BJP leaders will meet in Delhi this evening to decide on candidates for Rajya Sabha elections next month in three states. In Gujarat, where elections will be held for three seats, the BJP will win two with ease and intends to field a third candidate too, hoping to scuttle the chances of Congress leader Ahmed Patel, political advisor to party chief Sonia Gandhi, returning to the upper house of Parliament.

 If the BJP can pull it off, it will deal the Congress a severe blow ahead of assembly elections to be held later this year. For this the party is eyeing the support of about 11 Congress legislators in Gujarat who last week voted for the BJP's nominee Ram Nath Kovind in the presidential election rather than for their party's candidate Meira Kumar. 

 The MLAs who cross-voted are believed to be supporters of Shankarsinh Vaghela, who quit the Congress last week after it refused to name him its presumptive chief minister.

 Even though Mr Vagehla, a north Gujarat heavyweight and a former BJP man, has said he will not join his old party, there is speculation that he will help the party against the Congress. 

 The 77-year-old has quit the party but remains an MLA as does his son Mahendrasinh Vaghela. His birthday celebration, where he announced his resignation last week, was attended by his son and one more Congress MLA and also the two NCP lawmakers. 

 Ahmed Patel is expected to file nomination papers today. He told that he has met Mr Vagehla, who has assured him of support. "There is no reason not to believe him," Ahmed Patel said, though the core of Mr Vaghela's recent attacks has been against Mr Patel, who he has accused of running the Congress to the ground in the state. 


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