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Relatives, father-son duo elected in Assembly elections

Chhotu Vasava had formed new political forum, the Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP), that had electoral ties with Congress for seat sharing on five constituencies

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(Top) Mohansinh Rathwa (l) and his relative Sukhram Rathva, (Bottom) Chhotu Vasava, son Mahesh
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Several candidates who are relatives won the polls and have been elected to the 14th term of the Gujarat Assembly. For instance, the father-son duo of Chhotu and Mahesh Vasava.

Chhotu Vasava had formed new political forum, the Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP), that had electoral ties with Congress for seat sharing on five constituencies. Chhotu Vasava has been elected from Jhaghadia (ST) reserved seat with a lead of 49,948 votes against BJP's Ravji Vasava, while his son Mahesh won from Dediapada (ST) reserved constituency by defeating sitting MLA and BJP candidate Motilal Vasava with a lead of 21,751 votes. BTP could win on two seats only out of the five they got from Congress under seat sharing formula.

Similarly, 10-time MLA and former leader of Opposition Mohansinh Rathwa and his relative Sukhram Rathwa, a Congress candidate, have been elected on two ST reserve seats. Mohansinh's son is married to Sukhram's daughter. While Mohansinh won from Chhota Udepur ST reserved seat with a lead of 1,092 votes against BJP's Jashu Rathwa, Sukhram was elected from Jetpur Pavi (ST) reserve seat with a margin of 3,052 votes. He defeated BJP's Jayanti Rathwa here.

Two brothers, both from BJP, were also in the fray this polls. These are former Minister of State Parsottam Solanki and his younger brother and former Parliamentary secretary Hira Solanki. While Parsottam contested from Bhavnagar Rural constituency and won with a margin of 30,993 votes against Congress's Kanti Chauhan, but Hira lost against Congress' Amrish Der by a margin of 12,719 votes on Rajula seat. Both these brothers were elected in 2012 polls and were members of the House for five years.

In the 2012 polls, more relatives were elected as former leader of Opposition Shankersinh Vaghela and his son Mahendra had won as Congress candidates. Mahendra's daughter's father in-law Balwantsinh Rajput was a Congress member in the House. Shankersinh and Mahendra left Congress but did not contest the polls this time, while Rajput defected to BJP and did not contest.

Saurashtra's Patel community leader Vitthal Radadiya and his son Jayesh Radadiya also won from Dhoraji-Upleta and Jetpur seats as Congress candidates. Later in 2013, both defected to BJP and Jayesh was made the minister in the then CM Narendra Modi's cabinet while Vitthal contested Lok Sabha polls from Porbandar seat as BJP candidate in 2014 and won too.

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