Jignesh Mevani, Who Came To Congress Before The Elections, Captured The Vadgam Seat
In the Gujarat assembly elections 2022, even though the Congress has been disappointed. But, famous Dalit leader and Congress candidate Jignesh Mevani have captured the Vadgam assembly seat. Congress leader Jignesh Mevani has defeated BJP candidate Manibhai Jethabhai Vaghela by 4928 votes from the Vadgam seat.
BaluSingh Rajpurohit 
In the Gujarat assembly elections 2022, even though the Congress has been disappointed. But, famous Dalit leader and Congress candidate Jignesh Mevani have captured the Vadgam assembly seat. Congress leader Jignesh Mevani has defeated BJP candidate Manibhai Jethabhai Vaghela by 4928 votes from the Vadgam seat.
Know how many votes Jignesh Mevani got
Jignesh Mevani got 94,765 votes in this election. While Manibhai Jethabhai Vaghela got 89,837 votes. Whereas, Dalpat Bhatia of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) remained at number three with 4493 votes. This is a Scheduled Caste (SC) reserved seat. Here the total number of SC voters is more than 17 percent. Whereas, the total number of voters is 2,95,281. There are 1,50,173 male voters, 1,45,107 female voters, and 1 other voter.
Independents won in 2017 Jignesh Mevani
Independent candidate Jignesh Mevani won from here in the 2017 assembly elections. Then from here, Jignesh defeated BJP's Chakraborty Vijay Kumar by 19,696 votes. Jignesh Mevani's vote share was 55.22 percent. Later he joined the Congress party. In the 2012 assembly elections, then Congress candidate and now BJP candidate Manilal Vaghela won from here.
How Jignesh Mevani came into the limelight
Jignesh Mevani has also been in custody for ten days in connection with a tweet on PM Narendra Modi. Jignesh Mevani was born on 11 December 1982 in the Ahmedabad district of Gujarat. His father retired as a clerk from the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation in 1987. There was a protest after the atrocities on Dalits in Una village of Saurashtra region of Gujarat. Mevani did Dalit Asmita Yatra from Ahmedabad to Una regarding this. It ended on 15 August 2016.
