LIVE: Gujarat state BJP wants LK Advani to contest from Gandhinagar

March 18, 2014 14:55

A BJP state parliamentary board meeting being held now wants LK Advani to contest from Gandhinagar, Narendra Modi from Surat or Ahmedabad (East).

A five-time MP from Gandhinagar, Advani was earlier offered a Rajya Sabha seat by his party but declined to enter the house of elders, choosing to continue in electoral politics.

Advani has remained unbeaten from his Gandhinagar seat five times in 1991, 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2009. In the 2009 elections, when he was BJP's prime ministerial candidate, Advani won the hustings with the margin of 1.21 lakh votes defeating his nearest rival Suresh Patel of the Congress.

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