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BJP chief Amit Shah, who filed his nomination for the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat on Saturday, 30 March, started his election campaign by garlanding the statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in Naranpura, Ahmedabad.
Shah has replaced BJP veteran L K Advani, who had been winning uninterrupted from Gandhinagar since 1998, from the prestigious constituency. Shah is contesting the Lok Sabha poll for the first time.
After addressing a public rally Amit Shah set off on a road show in Ahmedabad leading to the collector’s office where he filed his nomination for the Gandhinagar seat. Thousands of BJP workers and gathered on the streets cheering Amit Shah and the BJP as the road show trudged along towards the collector’s office.
Shah addressed a Vijay Sankalp Sabha in the city before embarking on a massive road show. Shah’s son Jay Shah was also present with the BJP national president during the public address.
He further added, “During my visits to different places in the country, I found people chanting only Modi's name to lead the country. In Narendra Modi, people have found the leader they had been waiting for since the last 70 years," Shah said.
"This election will be fought only on the issue of who will lead the country... When I ask this question to people from Himachal to Kanyakumari and from Kamrup to Gandhinagar, I can only hear one sound – 'Modi, Modi, Modi'," Shah told the crowd
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said he was always in support of Amit Shah contesting LS elections.
At the sabha, Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackerey said that the Shiv Sena never stabbed the BJP from the back and never will.
“My father taught me to do everything from heart, issues that we raised were of the people, we (BJP-Shiv Sena) had differences but we settled them. BJP and Shiv Sena have same ideologies. But I want to ask Opposition alliance, do you have anything in common?” Thackerey said.
Speaking with reporters earlier in the day at Gandhinagar, Union Transport Minister, Nitin Gadkari said, “I am confident that Amit Shah will win the Gandhinagar seat with a huge majority and the party too will return to power with more seats than the last election. Our alliance will form the government and Modiji will return as PM.”
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