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Opp candidates should lose deposits so there is peace forever: Bhupendra Patel | Elections News

Claiming that for the first time, the public enmasse has clarity on who to vote for in the Lok Sabha polls, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Saturday urged voters to ensure a lead so massive for the BJP candidate that all Opposition nominees lose their deposits and there is no “magajmari” (brainstorming) in the next elections.He was speaking at a ‘Modi Parivar Sabha’, an election meeting organised at BJP MLA Hardik Patel’s Assembly constituency of Viramgam in Ahmedabad district, which is a part of the Surendranagar Lok Sabha seat. Referring to BJP’s election slogan ‘Abki baar 400 par’, Patel termed it as a Jan Andolan (people’s movement), where the voters “themselves want the party win to cross 400 seats”. In an indirect reference to Opposition leaders. including chief ministers jailed in various cases, he went on to say, “Earlier, before an election, we would ask what scam has been unearthed, today, we are asking which scammer has been sent (to jail) for a scam.” The gathering saw Hardik and Surendranagar BJP candidate Chandubhai Shihora in …