The BJP and the Congress both have three candidates each in the poll fray for four Rajya Sabha seats from Gujarat.
Looking at the total members from both parties in the Gujarat assembly, it seems like a possibility that two candidates from each party could be elected.
However, both parties are trying hard to get all their candidates elected.
All six candidates filed their nomination papers on Monday, which was the last date for the same.
In the last RS polls held on August 01, 2017, elections were held for three seats. While the BJP had fielded three candidates, including party chief Amit Shah, Union minister Smriti Irani and Congress defector Balwantsinh Rajput, Ahmed Patel was the Congress candidate for the polls.
Resignation by several Congress MLAs before the polls following to their defection to Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress's exercise to retain members and their Bengaluru camping and cross voting by two members that resulted in disqualification.
Unless two candidates from BJP and Congress each remains in fray, elections will be held and that will make this entire process a high voltage dramma.
A senior BJP leader said the some Congress MLAs were in touch with the party and they would succeed in convincing them to cross-vote.
Deputy CM Nitin Patel also implied the possibility of a similar situation.
"We feel many Congress MLAs will cross-vote, which would work to our advantage, and hence we have fielded Kiritsinh Rana as our third candidate," he said.
However, the Gujarat Congress chief Bharatsinh Solanki said he was confident this time.
"Both our candidates will win comfortably. The Bharatiya Janata Party believes in the policy of horse-trading, but it failed in the previous Rajya Sabha elections, and will fail this time too," he said.
FROM LAST POLLS
- During the last polls, Ahmed Patel won with a margin of one vote, and that too after the legal battle on the issue of disqualification of votes of two members went till wee hours.
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