Gujarat election 2017 key candidates: Jaish Patel

Jaish Patel is a Congress candidate from the Bharuch constituency

Patel wasn’t in the original candidate list for Bharuch. Instead the party had given the ticket to Kiran Thakor, Alpesh Thakor’s wife from the seat. However, Patel was drafted in by the Congress after further deliberations in a revised list released by the party. Patel hasn’t won an election since 1995. He is reportedly worth over Rs 3 crore and like other Congress candidates owns several properties and huge tracts of agriculture land in and around his constituency. He contested against BJP’s Rajnikant Patel in the polls.