Shah says will contest,win easily

“I am very much active in the party electioneering in the state and I will also take part in every public activity,” he said.

He would contest from any of the five seats carved out of the erstwhile Sarkhej constituency after delimitation. The five new constituencies are Sabarmati,Naranpura,Danilimda,Ghatlodia and Vejalpur.

“I have not yet decided from which of these five to contest,” said Shah,who was at the Navratilova Sardar Patel Stadium to announce dates for elections to the Central Board of Cricket,Ahmedabad.

He appeared confident of getting a ticket of his choice and asserted that he would contest the election with full vigour. “I will not only be contesting the elections,but I am going to win this time also with a comfortable margin,” said Shah,who is currently out on bail. “Last time,I had won from the Sarkhej Assembly seat with a margin of over 2.5 lakh votes. Now,after delimitation,it has been divided…. I can win from any of these with comfortable margins,” he said.

In September,Shah had returned to Gujarat after a gap of two years. The Supreme Court had allowed him to enter the state while rejecting a CBI plea to cancel the bail granted to him in the Sohrabuddin case.

With PTI inputs

Bihar BJP workers leave for Gujarat

PATNA: Accepting Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation,the Bihar unit of the BJP on Sunday sent over 24 party workers to the western state for assistance in the polls there. “Nearly two dozen BJP workers from Bihar have left for Gujarat today,” president of the state BJP unit C P Thakur told PTI. More party workers and leaders would go there in future too for the election purposes,he said.

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi said,“I have not received any invitation so far for campaigning in Gujarat. When I get an invitation I’ll definitely try to render my services to the party there depending on the engagements back home at that time.”

PTI