Ahead of the Gujarat’s phase one polling for the Assembly elections on Thursday, cricketer Ravindra Jadeja on Wednesday night shared an old video of Balasaheb Thackeray where he said that Gujarat without Modi would be finished.
He captioned it “Abhi bhi time hai samaj jao gujaratiyo” (there is still time, understand, people of Gujarat). The cricketer’s wife, Rivaba Jadeja is contesting from Jamnagar North constituency on a BJP ticket in her election debut this year.
It was on PM Modi’s insistence and suggestion in 2018 that Rivaba Jadeja joined BJP.
In the video, Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray can be seen saying, “I have only this much to say that if Narendra Modi is not there, Gujarat is nothing.”
Voting for 89 seats in the first phase of Gujarat elections began at 8 am on Thursday, December 1. Voting is being held across 19 districts in Saurashtra-Kutch and southern parts of the state across 14,382 polling stations. 788 candidates are in the fray, and an estimated 2.39 crore eligible voters in the region.