Choryasi bypoll: Cong fields Dhansukh Rajput, Election Result Live, BJP Leading
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Congress on Monday fielded Dhansukh Rajput, three-time municipal councillor of Surat and a migrant, to take on BJP’s Jankhana, daughter of the late MLA Raja Patel, from Choryasi Assembly seat in Surat in the bypoll to be held on January 21. Rajput filed his nomination at Surat district collector office on Monday. Till the last day of filing nominations Monday, 34 persons have filed their papers.
While Jankhana is a Koli Patel, Rajput is into real estate business and hails from Uttar Pradesh. The total number of voters in this migrant-dominated seat is 3.91 lakh. Out of this, 1.63 lakh are male voters and the rest are women. The migrant voters hail from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Odisha, and others. This seat has sizable number of Koli Patels, Kanbi Patels, fishermen, Brahmins, Rajputs, SCs/STs from the state.
BJP candidate Jankhana Patel had filed her nomination form on Saturday afternoon. According to her affidavit, she is having assets worth over Rs 6 crore, while Rajput is having assets worth over Rs 11 crore.