The Gujarat election in Porbandar’s Kutiyana seat is expected to be a tough battle for political survival with the BJP’s woman candidate Dheliben Odedara and Samajwadi Party’s (SP) candidate Kandhal Jadeja in the fray.
Jadeja, the two-time MLA from Porbandar’s Kutiyana seat and the son of the late “godmother,” Santokben Sarmanbhai Jadeja, got a ticket from the SP after the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) denied him a ticket in the upcoming polls. Jadeja’s direct fight is also with Congress candidate Nathbhai Bhurabhai, and the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Bhimabhai Makwana.
The BJP, which has been in power in Gujarat for the last 27 years, has roped in the municipal corporation chairman for the last 27 years, Dheliben Odedara, to contest the election from the Kutiyana seat.
Political sources say that both Kandhal and Dheliben have been close to ‘Godmother’ Santokben Sarmanbhai Jadeja’s family and that the two are related.
