{"id":1641,"date":"2022-11-11T10:55:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T10:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/2022\/11\/11\/two-brothers-battle-each-other-in-gujarat-polls\/"},"modified":"2022-11-11T10:55:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T10:55:33","slug":"two-brothers-battle-each-other-in-gujarat-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/2022\/11\/11\/two-brothers-battle-each-other-in-gujarat-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Two brothers battle each other in Gujarat polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"card-box img-box\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"main-img\" src=\"https:\/\/theblunttimes.in\/static\/c1e\/client\/95181\/uploaded\/ee97d1ae30bea0dfe6036e11e88e09b4.jpg\" alt=\"Ankleshwar\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"card-box\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size:12pt\">It\u2019s all in the family in Gujarat polls as two brothers have been pitted against each other in Bharuch\u2019s Ankleshwar-Hansot assembly constituency where the electorate has to make do with this &#8220;peculiar situation&#8221;.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has repeated Ishwarsinh Thakurbhai Patel and against him is his blood brother Vijaysinh alias Vallabh Thakurbhai Patel who is the Congress candidate. Vijay Singh Patel dissented from the BJP a few months ago following personal differences with his brother Ishwarsinh Patel, who is the former Gujarat Minister for Cooperation and chairman of the Pandvai Sugar Factory. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Gujarat elections have largely been a two-party contest but the Aam Aadmi Party, encouraged by the massive win in the 2022 Punjab assembly elections, is leading an aggressive campaign to make the fight three-cornered.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Vijay Singh Patel immediately joined the Congress after leaving BJP a few months ago. Vijaysinh filed his nomination for the Ankleshar-Hansot seat as the Congress candidate. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Political experts feel that the brothers don\u2019t want to lose a chance to keep the Ankleshwar-Hansot seat in their kitty. While many are claiming that both brothers are not on talking terms, it remains to be seen how much damage is done to either the Congress or BJP. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Ankleshwar-Hansot assembly constituency has been the stronghold for the Patel brothers. Their father, Thakur Gumaan Patel used to contest the Assembly election from Ankleshwar and his brother Ratanji was the BJP MLA. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v3.2&#038;appId=1732452170262278&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] It\u2019s all in the family in Gujarat polls as two brothers have been pitted against each other in Bharuch\u2019s Ankleshwar-Hansot assembly constituency where the electorate has to make do with this &#8220;peculiar situation&#8221;. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has repeated Ishwarsinh Thakurbhai Patel and against him is his blood brother Vijaysinh alias Vallabh Thakurbhai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}