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Murder accused Amit Shah gets BJP ticket
Wednesday November 28, 2012 11:49:56 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Former
Gujarat home minister Amit Shah, accused in the Soharabuddin
Sheikh and Tulsi Prajapati staged shootout cases, will contest in
the upcoming state assembly elections.
Shah will contest from Naranpura in Ahmedabad.
His name features in the second list of candidates released by the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the capital Wednesday.
Shah won last time from Sarkhej assembly constituency with a
margin of over 2.50 lakh votes.
After delimitation, Sarkhej is now divided into three
constituencies -- Vejalpur, Ghatlodia and Naranpura.
Shah is a close aide of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
In September, Shah had returned to Gujarat after a gap of two
years, following the Supreme Court judgment allowing him to
re-enter the state. The apex court rejected the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) plea to cancel the bail granted to Shah in the
Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shootout case.
Since his return to Ahmedabad, Shah had been keeping a low
profile. He has stayed away from public functions, and does not
interact with the media.
The CBI has, in its charge sheet, named Shah the prime accused in
the Tulsi Prajapati staged shootout case.
Acting on a petition filed by Shah, the Supreme Court had stayed
all proceedings in the Prajapati case.
Besides Shah, other high-profile names in the second list of BJP
candidates for the Gujarat assembly polls are: Social Justice and
Empowerment minister Fakirbhai Vaghela, from Vadgam (Banaskantha);
Health & Family Welfare Minister Jaynarayan Vyas, from Sidhpur (Patan);
Education Minister Ramanlal Vora, from Idar (Sabarkantha); and
Anandiben Patel from Ghatlodiya (Ahmedabad).
The list has named candidates for 89 of 95 seats that will see
polling in the second phase Dec 17.
Six candidates would be named later.
Among the BJP leaders attending the meeting which preceded the
release of the list were BJP Parliamentary Party chairman L.K.
Advani, Leader of Opposition (Lok Sabha) Sushma Swaraj, and Leader
of Opposition (Rajya Sabha) Arun Jaitley, besides members of the
Central Election Committee of the party.
The meeting was presided over by party president Nitin Gadkari.
The two-phase Gujarat assembly elections will be held Dec 13 and
17.
Counting of votes will take place Dec 20.
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