CR Paatil has been curtly asking party leaders and workers not to come to him for recommendations for the election tickets since Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah will decide all the contestants, after it passes through the central parliamentary board.

Ahmedabad Contrary to his assertions at various meetings with the party’s rank and file across the State for the last over a fortnight, Gujarat BJP president CR Paatil has given a go-ahead to two aspirants, turncoat Alpesh Thakor and sitting MLA Dilip Thakor, for tickets to contest the upcoming assembly elections.

CR Paatil has been curtly asking party leaders and workers not to come to him for recommendations for the election tickets since Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah will decide all the contestants, after it passes through the central parliamentary board.

But during a tour to North Gujarat, he cleared the candidature of Alpesh Thakor, who had quit the Congress to join the BJP in 2019, from Radhanpur constituency and sitting MLA Dilip Thakor from Chanasma in Patan district.