Gandhinagar: On Saturday, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah will be filing his nomination from Gujarat’s Gandhinagar constituency, the seat represented by party’s patriarch Lal Krishna Advani so far. Shah will be accompanied by senior BJP leaders including Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, SAD supremo Parkash Singh Badal, and LJP founder Ram Vilas Paswan during his election trail.

Here it is to be noted that before filing his nomination, the BJP president will address a rally and also hold a roadshow, that will traverse through Naranpur from where Shah had contested the 2012 Assembly polls. On March 21, the BJP released the first list of 182 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, fielding Shah from Gandhinagar, a party’s bastion. The decision, however, did not go down well with the opposition who called the move an insult to BJP’s veteran leaders. The Lok Sabha elections will be held in seven phases from April 11 to May 19 for 543 Lok Sabha seats across the country and the counting of votes will be done on May 23. The 26 Lok Sabha seats of Gujarat will go to polls on April 23.

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To be noted that BJP president Amit Shah pays tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, he will file his nomination for Gandhinagar parliamentary constituency. Prakash Singh Badal, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh are also present at the event. Ahead of nomination filing, Amit Shah address a rally and thanked BJP for fielding him from a constituency which was earlier represented by party's senior leaders. "It’s my privilege to have been nominated from the seat which was previously represented by veteran party leaders like LK Advani, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Vijaybhai Patel," he said at the rally. Rajnath Singh heaped praised on Amit Shah and said that he was inheriting the political legacy of LK Advani, who represented the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency for six terms.

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