New Delhi: PM Modi's niece Sonal Modi failed to get a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket for the Ahmedabad municipal elections. The BJP on Thursday released the list of names of its candidates for the upcoming election of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), but it does not name Sonal Modi. The BJP has cited new rules for the candidates if Sonal Modi is not named.

Sonal Modi had told the press on Tuesday that she has demanded a ticket from BJP to contest elections from Bodakdev ward of AMC. Sonal Modi is the daughter of PM Modi's brother Prahlad Modi, who runs a ration shop in the city and is also the head of the Gujarat Fair Rate Shops Association. It is notable that the Gujarat BJP recently announced that relatives of party leaders will not be given tickets in the upcoming elections. However, Sonal Modi claimed that she had sought the ticket, not being a niece of PM Modi, but a BJP worker.

Sonal was not fielded from Bodakdev or any other ward in the list released by the BJP late Thursday. When BJP state unit president CR Patil was asked about not giving tickets to Sonal Modi, he said that the rules are equal for everyone. Voting will be held on February 21 for the elections of six municipal corporations, including Rajkot, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Bhavnagar and Jamnagar in Gujarat, while votes will be cast on February 28 for 81 municipalities, 31 district panchayats and 231 taluka panchayats.

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