Why did Congress need to take Paresh Dhanni to the Amreli seat?

Why did Congress need to take Paresh Dhanni to the Amreli seat?

 

Leader of the Opposition in Gujarat Assembly Paresh Dhanani has filed nomination from Amreli constituency for Lok Sabha elections.

Gujarat Congress leader Manish Doshi has confirmed this.

Paresh Dhanari, who defeated BJP leader Purushottam Rupala in the assembly elections, is the young face of Congress.

In the conversation with BBC Gujarati, Doshi said, "Appreciation is accepted not only in the Patidars but in other societies too."

According to Doshi, candidates of Gandhinagar, Jamnagar, Surendranagar and Ahmedabad East have also been declared in the list of candidates declared by Congress's Central Election Committee.

According to the list, Congress is from Gandhinagar. Which Chavda has given tickets, from Jamnagar to Mulubhai Kandoria and Surendranagar, Somabhai Patel has been elevated. Paresh Dhanari has been nominated from Amreli seat.

According to senior journalist Jagdish Acharya, Amreli is a strong seat of Congress and Paresh Dharni is considered a big leader in Saurashtra.

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Paresh Dhanani was the president of the Congress Student Organization in Amreli district before 2002.

In the 2017 assembly elections, Paresh Dhanani was elected to the Amreli seat and in January 2010, he was appointed the Leader of the Opposition in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly.

In the elections, 42-year-old Dhanani defeated BJP's Barwaku Udhed by nearly 12,000 votes and was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the third time.

Paresh Dhanani, who was contesting for the first time in the 2002 assembly elections, defeated the then Gujarat Chief Minister of Gujarat, Purushottam Rupala by 16,000 votes.

According to senior journalist Jagdish Acharya, Dhanani had won a 'heavyweight' victory by defeating a senior leader like Rupala in the first election.

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Paresh Dhanni, who was the fourth child of a middle class farmer's family, got married after becoming his MLA.

According to Jagdish Acharya, Dhanari's family still lives in a common house.

In 2007, Paresh Dhanni had to face defeat of BJP leader Dilip Sanghani. At that time the defeat was defeated by almost 4000 votes.

However, in 2012 assembly elections, he defeated Dilip Sanghani by almost 30 thousand votes.

Dhanari is considered close to Congress president Rahul Gandhi. And they are also associated with Patidar's religious institute, Khodaldham.

In the 2017 assembly elections, Gujarat Congress won 77 seats and BJP got 99 seats.

Amreli's choice of choice for interlinking?
BJP has given tickets to the current MP Narayanbhai Chashadia from Amreli. When Paresh Dhanari was elected as the MLA from Amreli in 2017, Patidar leader Hardik Patel had made a statement that Congress should make Patid leader Paresh Dhanni as Leader of the Opposition. There was also talk of a fight for that.

During the election campaign, Hardik addressed a meeting in Amreli, saying that Paresh Dhanni would be the Chief Minister in the Congress government.

Amreli seat in Saurashtra is considered safe for Congress, Congress won 5 seats out of 7 assembly seats in Amreli parliamentary constituency.

Of these seven seats, 5 are from Amreli district, while the remaining two are in Bhavnagar district. Jagdish Acharya, on how to parse Paresh Dhanani from Amreli, will be able to put the mathematics of Patidar votes in the Congress election, says that 25 percent of the voters in the parliamentary constituency of Amreli are voters in which Leuva Patels have a majority.

Acharya adds, "There were more than one contender in the Congress for the Amreli seat and the party has opted for the intervention to stop the intercession."

"The reason for choosing an advertisement is because one is a big leader in Saurashtra and the second is Amreli Saurashtra's seat where Congress can expect good performance.