Amreli (Gujarat), Nov 18 (PTI) After being thoroughly outmanoeuvred by the Congress in the 2017 polls in Gujarat’s Amreli district, where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost all the five Assembly seats, the ruling outfit will seek to salvage its reputation by winning some of the segments this time around in an area which was once its stronghold.
In an election held in the backdrop of the Patidar quota agitation, the BJP faced the ire of voters and returned empty-handed in Amreli district, which was the hotbed of the stir for reservation in education and government jobs.
The humiliating defeat in the Patidar-dominated district was a humbling experience for the BJP and its leaders in Gujarat even as the saffron party managed to win the state, though with a reduced majority, in 2017 when its seat tally fell below the 100-mark.
