The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has given a ticket to Kantilal Amrutiya, who jumped into the river to save the lives of people in the recent Morbi bridge tragedy, for the upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections.
Amrutiya has been fielded from the Morbi constituency. The BJP on Thursday released its first list of 160 candidates for the upcoming Gujarat Assembly election.
Addressing a joint press conference, Union Ministers Mansukh Mandviya, Bhupender Yadav and State BJP Chief CR Paatil announced the names of the candidates.
“PM Narendra Modi has said that I am fighting to break my own record, and the Bharatiya Janata Party will fulfil their intention, and they will win Gujarat with the maximum number of seats,” CR Paatil said.
Amrutiya, who was the former MLA from Morbi, jumped into the river after wearing a life tube without caring for his life.
Reportedly, he saved the lives of some people after a recent bridge collapse incident. It is being told that earlier his name was not in the candidates’ list but he got the reward for the courage he showed during the accident.
The current MLA of Morbi, Brijesh Merja, the cabinet minister in Gujarat has been dropped. At least 135 people were killed after a British-era cable bridge collapsed on the Machchhu River in Morbi on 30 October.
The mishap had also triggered a political storm with the Opposition parties targeting the ruling BJP.
