'No entry to Congress' banners put up in Ward 15, poster war against BJP defector to Congress

The battle for the Vadodara Municipal Corporation has been heating up since the beginning. In the Vadodara Municipal Corporation, all eyes are on Ward 15 as Ashish Joshi, who is considered to be a strong candidate from the BJP and who is fighting for the Harni boat accident, has fielded a panel. Residents of the society in the area have put up posters saying that this society is a society of Ram devotees and the Congress should not enter here. Congress should not enter Ram Bhakt Society Banners have been put up by residents outside Ranchhod Park Society in Ward 15. The banners read that the Congress should not enter the Ram Bhakt Society. In fact, the fight here is not between the BJP and the Congress, but against Ashish Joshi, who has gone from the BJP to the Congress and formed a strong panel. People's anger is against the candidate who defects. Mukund Bhai, a local resident, said that the person who was elected from the BJP last time and was associated with the ideology of Lord Ram has now adopted the ideology of the Congress for power. Such a person cannot be trusted and therefore not a single Congress candidate will be allowed here. Another resident, Ravi Trivedi, said, "This has been done by only one society. Other societies will also do so in the coming days as these are Ram bhakts. Prestige battle for Ward 15 MLA? In the last term, Ashish Joshi and his panel of the BJP had won in Ward 15. Ashish Joshi was considered a close associate of Dabhoi MLA Shailesh Mehta. Shailesh Mehta is also rumored to have sought a ticket for his son in the last term, but when he did not get a ticket, he fielded his very personal Ashish Joshi. However, in five years, the equations have changed and now Ashish Joshi has fallen against the MLA, so this ward has become a prestige battle for the MLA as well. Just as the election campaign has begun, the poster war has broken out. The form of a Congress candidate has been cancelled. During the door verification process, the form of Rajendra Barot, the OBC candidate of the Congress from ward 15, was cancelled. It was also alleged that his form was cancelled as his name was not included in the voters' list after the SIR process. In this ward, the name announced by the Congress will not be able to contest the election and Hitesh Machi, who had filed the form as a dummy candidate, will contest the election. The real colours of the local body elections will now be shining Vadodara is said to be a school of politics. At the same time, the local body elections will also see the peak of political manoeuvres. This is just the beginning, the old jogis believe that the politics of Vadodara will take a different colour in the coming days. It would not be surprising if new alchemy and tricks are seen every day in every ward in the municipal elections.