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BJP has assigned a constituency to each of its 230 leaders from Gujarat, UP, Bihar, and Maharashtra and tasked them with preparing ground reports. Of the 48-strong Gujarat contingent, 18 have been assigned tribal seats.
Shailesh Bhatt, who along with his brother is among 11 who got remission in Bilkis case, is acknowledged as the mentor of long-term BJP legislator and ex-Union minister Jasvantsinh Bhabhor who won the party crucial seat in Dahod tribal district
One of the convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gangrape and murder of her family members case, freed last year under Gujarat’s remission policy, has shared the stage with BJP MP Jaswant Bhabhor and his MLA brother Shailesh Bhabhor at a government event held at Limkheda in Dahod district of the State.
The ruling BRS in Telangana has strongly denounced the BJP after a convict in the 2002 Bilkis Bano case shared the stage with the saffron party lawmakers during a government event in Gujarat.