#gujratelection2022

Bhupendra Patel won a second term as chief minister as the BJP picked up 156 seats under his leadership. Bhupendra Patel has been associated with the RSS since he was a little child. He entered politics in the 1990s after receiving his engineering degree after getting in touch with Anandiben Patel. He had a long history of involvement in municipal politics before to standing in the 2017 assembly election.

Ravindra Jadeja's wife Rivaba is a candidate for the BJP in the North Jamnagar seat. Her sister-in-law Naynaba Jadeja, a supporter of the Congress party, was seen endorsing a candidate from that party while sitting in the chair. During the election, Rivaba and Naynaba's father-in-law were seen urging people to vote for the Congress candidate. After a video went viral, there was a lot of discussion about the distinctions within the Jadeja family. Rivaba Jadeja assured reporters that there is no issue as the first round of voting for the election in Gujarat is currently taking place. Various viewpoints are represented in the same family.

Voting started at 8 am with 788 candidates running for the 89 seats up for grabs in 19 districts, and it will continue until 5 pm over 14,382 polling places, according to the office of the state's chief electoral officer. Among the well-known candidates running in the first round are Isudan Gadhvi, the AAP's candidate for chief minister (from Devbhumi's Kambhalia seat), Gopal Italia, the party's state unit president (from Katargam in Surat), Rivaba Jadeja, and BJP MLAs Harsh Sanghavi and Purnesh Modi, Lalit Kagathara, Lalit Vasoya, and Rutvik Makwana.