Cricketer Ravindra Jadeja’s wife, Rivaba, to contest election from Jamnagar with BJP
She wants to follow the path of PM Modi to work for the people,” Jadeja told reporters at the event.
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Cricketer Ravindra Jadeja accompanied his wife, Rivaba Jadeja to a BJP-hosted event in Jamnagar, Gujarat on Monday before she files her nomination to the ruling party a month before the state holds its assembly elections. Rivaba Jadeja will contest from the Jamnagar North constituency.
“Cricketer Ravindra Jadeja and his wife and BJP leader Rivaba Jadeja attend an event in Jamnagar organised ahead of the filing of nomination for the upcoming Gujarat Election. Rivaba Jadeja will contest from Jamnagar North and file her nomination today,” a tweet with images shared by news agency ANI said.
“It is her first time as an MLA candidate and she’ll learn a lot. I hope she will progress… She is of (a) helping nature and has always wanted to help people and hence joined politics. She wants to follow the path of PM Modi to work for the people,” Jadeja told reporters at the event.
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The cricketer also uploaded a video on his twitter profile in which he says, “My dear residents of Jamnagar and cricket fans, as you know that the state assembly elections are upcoming and are moving at a fast pace like T20 cricket, the BJP has handed the responsibility of becoming an MLA to my wife Rivaba Jadeja and the power lies in your hands to make her victorious”.
Appealing to his fans and Jamnagar residents he added “She will fill her nomination papers tomorrow morning on November 14 and it is your responsibility to create an atmosphere of victory.”
જામનગર ના મારા તમામ મિત્રો ને મારુ દીલ થી આમંત્રણ છે. જય માતાજી🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/olZxvYVr3t
— Ravindrasinh jadeja (@imjadeja) November 13, 2022
The first list of 160 candidates, which the BJP revealed last week, included Rivaba Jadeja and former Congress leader Hardik Patel. Patel, who led the Patidar community’s quota movement and switched in June, will run from Viramgam.
Gujarat will have two rounds of voting on December 1 and 5, with results expected on December 8 along with those from the Himachal Pradesh election.
It is largely anticipated that the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party will defeat the challenges of the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party and maintain control of the prime minister’s home state, Narendra Modi.
