Amit Shah picks 12.39pm 'vijay muhurat' to file his papers

GANDHINAGAR: At the stroke of 12.39pm on Friday, Union home minister

Amit Shah

filed his

nomination

seeking a second successive term in Parliament from

Gandhinagar

, the seat that he said had nurtured his political career for 30 years, helping him rise from a "humble booth worker" of BJP to an MP.
Shah marked the "vijay muhurat" in which he handed his nomination papers to district collector M K Dave by iterating that this

Lok Sabha election

was all about giving

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

a resounding third mandate to create a strong foundation for "Viksit Bharat".

Accompanied by Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel and other state BJP functionaries, he said Modi's third term would be his most significant one.

"He (Modi) has resolved to turn India into a developed country by 2047 and No. 1 in all sectors. The next five years are crucial if we want to achieve that because the past 10 years were spent bringing the country out of the pit dug by the erstwhile UPA govt."
Shah said he was grateful to the party for renominating him from the Gandhinagar constituency, previously represented by stalwarts such as

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

and Lal Krishna Advani. He mentioned being a registered voter in the constituency.

"Before becoming an member of Parliament, I was an MLA representing assembly segments of this seat. The people of Gandhinagar gave me their blessings whenever I sought their votes," he said.
Shah pointed out that projects worth Rs 22,000 crore had been undertaken in his constituency since 2019.
A day earlier, Shah held three roadshows in the constituency, culminating in a rally at Vejalpur in Ahmedabad.
Shah won the Gandhinagar seat in 2019 by a whopping margin of 5.56 lakh votes. Sonal Patel of Congress is his rival in the May 7 election.