Gandhinagar (Gujarat) [India], November 17 (ANI): BJP candidate from Gandhinagar South , Alpesh Thakor files his nomination on Thursday for the upcoming Gujarat Assembly Election in presence of CM Bhupendra Patel.

Alpesh Thakor exuded confidence in the party winning over 150 seats in the elections.

Alpesh Thakor exuded confidence in the party winning over 150 seats in the elections.

The BJP leader, who was earlier in Congress before 2019, also took on his previous party stating that it has lost ground in the state and none of its leaders has a mass base.

Thakor, one of the faces of the anti-BJP movement in Gujarat during the 2017 elections, joined the BJP in 2019. He had won on a Congress ticket in the 2017 Assembly elections but lost his Radhanpur seat in a bypoll in 2019.

Speaking to ANI on Wednesday, Thakor said, “Gujarat elections are not a challenge for us. Lotus has won here in the past and lotus will win in the future. BJP will win more than 150 seats and form government here. We will win in Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad also.”