Gujarat polls: BJP will win more than 150 seats, Congress has lost ground, says Alpesh Thakor

OBC leader Alpesh Thakor, now a candidate with the BJP after crossing over from Congress, has exuded confidence that his party will win over 150 seats in the elections. BJP has fielded Thakor from Gandhinagar South in the Gujarat Assembly polls.

He also took on his previous party and said that Congress has lost ground in the state.

He added that none of its leaders has a mass base.


Thakor was earlier in Congress before 2019. He was one of the faces of the anti-BJP movement in Gujarat during the 2017 elections. In 2017, he won on a Congress ticket but lost his Radhanpur seat in 2019 bypoll.

Alpesh Thakor is likely to file nomination papers as a BJP candidate from Gandhinagar South. The ruling party announced his name in the fourth list of candidates on November 14.

"Gujarat elections are not a challenge for us. Lotus has won here in the past and lotus will win in the future. BJP will win more than 150 seats and form government here. We will win in Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad also", Thakor said, quoted ANI.

Targeting Congress he said, "Those who say that Congress is working silently should know that they are misleading that they are working silently. Congress has no foundation, its leaders are fighting among themselves and they have lost ground."

He added, "This is why Aam Aadmi Party is being discussed. Congress is not working, they are dismantled. They do not have a mass base."

Confident of his own win, Thakor said that he does not have any political challenges here. "I have won the hearts of the people here. The BJP workers have complete faith in me. I don't have any challenges here.

He added, "I have thought about a lot of things to be done in the field of infrastructure, startups, and others. Once we win again, we will continue the work."

On being seen as an OBC face, the BJP leader said that he will put in all his efforts to ensure that the rights of the OBC community are upheld.

"The policies that are in place for the OBC, I will try to implement them. I talk about the welfare of the Gujaratis. My effort will be to ensure that the rights of the OBC community are taken care of," he said.