Surat-West seat: BJP’s Purnesh Modi to slug it out with Cong’s D L Patel

In the last Assembly elections,Congress candidate Usha Patel lost against BJP candidate late Kishor Vankawala by 75,000 votes. This year,the BJP workers have the target to win the election with the margin of one lakh votes.

Patel,a resident of Adajan area in Surat, retired in 2006 as sales tax officer. His native place is Olpad in Surat district. He said,“This is for the first time I am contesting election and the responsibility given to me by my party bosses is tough but we all will work hard and emerge victorious. I will take up mostly local issues. The BJP MLA has no power to take this issue to the state government and come out with proper solution. I will take this issue and will see that proper embankment wall is made on the banks of Tapi river from the starting point of the city to the end point so that the people will not fear floods.”