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The Bharatiya Janata Party connected Monday (March 30, 2026) announced Harshad Parmar, lad of erstwhile MLA Govind Parmar, arsenic its campaigner for the upcoming byelection to the Umreth Assembly constituency successful Gujarat.
The bypoll has been necessitated pursuing the decease ofGovind Parmar, who passed distant connected March 6 astatine the property of 72 aft a little illness. He had represented the Umreth spot successful Anand district.
In a statement, the party’s cardinal enactment confirmed Mr. Harshad Govindbhai Parmar’s candidature, marking his archetypal large electoral contest.
The Election Commission of India has scheduled polling for April 23. Other parties, including the Congress, are yet to state their nominees for the seat.
In the 2022 Assembly elections, Govind Parmar, a four-term legislator, had retained the spot by defeating Nationalist Congress Party campaigner Jayant Patel, besides known arsenic Boski, by a borderline of implicit 25,000 votes.
The 182-member Gujarat Assembly presently has 161 members from the BJP, 12 from the Congress, 5 from the Aam Aadmi Party, 1 from the Samajwadi Party, and 2 Independents. The adjacent Assembly elections successful the authorities are expected successful precocious 2027.
