New Delhi/Ahmedabad,
Dec 19: In a rather interesting mandate in its own right, four Muslim
candidates were made to bite dust in Gujarat's Godhra Assembly segment
in Panchmahal district which has sizeable Muslim population but the BJP managed win the prestigious
seat.
C K Raulji, a Congress rebel who contested elections as BJP
candidate this time, won the seat by a slender margin of 258 votes over his nearest rival from the Congress
Rajedra Singh Parmar.
Mr Raulji contesting on Congress ticket had defeated BJP nominee Prabhatsinh Chauhan in 2012.
About 25 per cent of Godhra population is from the minority community, but all of them lost their deposits in this year's elections.
BJP had won Godhra in 2002 but had lost the seat in 2007 and also in 2012.
Pathan Meheralikhan, Ummarji Zuber Abdullah, Mansuri Mukhtar Mohammed and Bhana Vasim Faruk were Muslim candidates in the contest this time but none could make a mark.
Political observers say the course of Gujarat politics had changed 15 years back in 2002 when a coach carrying Ram Bhakts was torched at Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002 in a mysterious circumstances sparking off unprecedented communal violence across the state.
Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2002. UNI
Mr Raulji contesting on Congress ticket had defeated BJP nominee Prabhatsinh Chauhan in 2012.
About 25 per cent of Godhra population is from the minority community, but all of them lost their deposits in this year's elections.
BJP had won Godhra in 2002 but had lost the seat in 2007 and also in 2012.
Pathan Meheralikhan, Ummarji Zuber Abdullah, Mansuri Mukhtar Mohammed and Bhana Vasim Faruk were Muslim candidates in the contest this time but none could make a mark.
Political observers say the course of Gujarat politics had changed 15 years back in 2002 when a coach carrying Ram Bhakts was torched at Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002 in a mysterious circumstances sparking off unprecedented communal violence across the state.
Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2002. UNI
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