New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday released the second list of 36 candidates for Gujarat Assembly polls. It had released list of 70 candidates on Friday.


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With this, the party has announced 106 candidates for elections to the 182-member Gujarat Assembly elections to be held in two phases on December 9 and 14.


In the list, there are 13 ST candidates and two SC candidates.


In the first list, the ruling party has fielded 16 fresh faces in its first list.


Five Congress rebels were also given tickets - Raghavji Patel, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Ramsinh Parmar, Mansinh Chauhan and CK Raolji.


They had supported the BJP during the presidential election and during Congress leader Ahmed Patel's Rajya Sabha election.


Chief Minister Vijaybhai Rupani will contest from Rajkot West, while Deputy CM Nitinbhai Patel will contest from Mahesana and state party president Jitubhai Vaghani from Bhavnagar West.


The names were finalised by BJP's Central Election Committee, which met on Wednesday.


The meeting, chaired by BJP president Amit Shah, was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj among others.


(With PTI inputs)