After protests from local cadres, two candidates of BJP in Gujarat, Ranjanben Bhatt, the sitting MP from Vadodara, and Bhikhaji Thakor, the party’s candidate for Sabarkantha, have announced that they are unwilling to contest the Lok Sabha elections from their respective constituencies.
Their names were announced in the BJP’s first list. Ms. Bhatt was repeated by the party for the third time, while Mr. Thakor was picked as a fresh candidate in place of a sitting MP from Sabarkantha in North Gujarat.
According to party sources, there were protests by the local partyworkers against their candidacy.
