Rajkot: This civic polls may turn out to be contest for the newbies in BJP in Rajkot as the older faces of the municipal corporation (RMC) may not contest this time. According to party officials, the party has more than 700 ticket aspirants in Rajkot only on 72 seats of RMC.
BJP city president Kamlesh Mirani told TOI “Nitin Bhardwaj and Jaiman Upadhyay have explicitly expressed unwillingness to contest election this time.”
Brother of late Rajya Sabha member Abhay Bhardwaj, Nitin’s family is very close to chief minister Vijay Rupani and going by sources, his supporters are lobbying for a RS ticket on the seat left vacant by the sudden death of his elder brother. Abhay Bhardwaj had succumbed to Covid-19 recently.