In 1989, Congress's Ahmed Patel lost the Bharuch seat to BJP’s Chandu Deshmukh by 1.15 lakh votes. Ever since no Muslim has made it to the Lok Sabha from Gujarat. Muslims make up 9.5% of the state’s population. In 1962, when newly-formed Gujarat voted in its first Lok Sabha elections, only one Muslim candidate won, Johara Chavda, from Banaskantha.
from Times of India http://bit.ly/2uJJ2f6
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Thursday, April 4, 2019
On the margins: For 30 years, no Muslim MP from Gujarat in LS
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