Ravindra Jadeja thanks PM after woman selected as Gujarat BJP candidate

Indian cricket star Ravindra Jadeja today congratulated wife Rivaba on being selected as the BJP candidate in the upcoming Gujarat elections and thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah for giving him the opportunity.

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— Ravindrasinh jadeja (@imjadeja) November 10, 2022

In a social media post, Mr Jadeja wrote: “Congratulations to my wife on getting BJP ticket for Vidhan Sabha elections. So proud of all the effort and hard work you put in. Best wishes to you, may you continue. to work for the development of society”.

“I also want to thank our honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji and Shri Amit Shah ji for believing in his abilities and giving him an opportunity to do an honest job,” he added.

Rivaba Jadeja is the BJP’s choice for the Jamnagar North seat in its list of 160 candidates released today. The party walked out of MLA Dharmendrasinh M Jadeja’s session.

Indian men’s cricket team’s star all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja has missed the ongoing T20 World Cup in Australia due to a knee injury he sustained during the Asia Cup this year.

Rivaba Jadeja is a mechanical engineer by training. A relative of Congress veteran Hari Singh Solanki, she married Ravindra Jadeja in 2016. Based on the family’s Rajput heritage and former royal origins, he was an active politician in the Jamnagar-Saurashtra region.

For the past few months, he has been touring the countryside to garner support.