Gujarat election results 2022: BJP’s richest contestant JS Patel wins Mansa seat with margin of over 39K votes

Gujarat Election 2022: BJP’s Jayantibhai Somabhai Patel has won from Mansa with a margin of around 39,266 votes. Congress candidate Babusinh Mohansinh Thakor was trailing behind. While Patel gathered 98,144 winning votes, Thakor collected 58,878 votes. 

BJP’s JS Patel, Congress’ Babusinh Mohansinh Thakor and AAP’s Bhaskar Patel were the key candidates who contested against each other for Mansa constituency. The BSP, on the other hand, nominated Nareshbhai Muljibhai Parmar. A total of 10 candidates are competing against each other for the Mansa seat.

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In 2017, this constituency was won by Congress party. 

Jayanti Patel aka JS Patel, the BJP candidate from Mansa constituency, is the most richest contestant in the 2022 poll. He declared assets amounting to Rs 661. 29 crore in the election affidavit filed with his nomination form. An analysis of the 2012 and 2017 election affidavits reveals that Patel is the richest candidate in the state by far.

His father Soma Patel was a farmer in his native village of Ajol in Mansa taluka. At present, the family lives at Nabhoi in Gandhinagar district. Patel said that he has been associated with the BJP since its Jana Sangh days.

2017 results:

In Mansa, Congress’s Sureshbhai C Patel defeated BJP’s Amitbhai Chaudhary by just 524 seats. In the last state polls, Congress’s TB Mohansinghji defeated BJP’s DD Patel by just over 8,000 votes.

Elections will be held on 89 seats in the first phase on December 1 and on 93 seats in the second on December 5.

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