gujarat key candidate

Dhirajlal will be tasked with retaining a seat the Congress has won in three of the past four elections; he won it in 2002, 2012 and 2017, losing to the BJP in 2007. Dhirajlal earned a 'giant-killer' reputation after his first win, when he beat then top BJP leader Parushottam Rupala and the Congress will hope for a similarly emphatic win this year, when he faces the BJP's district chief Kaushik Vekariya and the AAP's Ravi Dhanani.