Jadeja's wife for BJP in elections
According to sources, Rivaba Jadeja, the wife of cricketer ravindra Jadeja, who joined the bjp three years ago, is one of the candidates who is likely to receive the party's nomination for the gujarat assembly elections as the bjp Central election Committee will meet today to decide on final candidates. Some of the party's senior officials, including former chief minister Vijay Rupani and former deputy chief minister Nitin Patel, who have been in office for 27 years in gujarat, might not run.
It has been learned that those above 75 years old, as well as family members of MPs and MLAs, will be ineligible. Rivaba Jadeja is connected to congress stalwart hari Singh Solanki and a mechanical engineer by training. In 2016, she wed ravindra Jadeja. She has also served as the leader of the Rajput community organisation Karni Sena.