about curfews union home minister amit shah has said in all his gujarat rallies for the 2022 poll shah has told audiences but many of you have seen curfews lasting 250 days the congress supported rioters but when mischief occurred in 2002 the bjp was in power and the government taught a salutary lesson peace prevailed in gujarat ever since shah has also spoken to amdavadis about the attacks on lord jagannaths rath yatra when the congress was in power he has said that since the bjp took over the peaceful religious cavalcade has become the hallmark of the saffron partys ruleahmedabad city has 16 assembly seats 11 in the east and five in the west the bjp has been winning a majority of seats here for decades the maninagar seat which was narendra modis bastion and the naranpura seat which was amit shahs stronghold are still bjp fiefsthe bjps loyal patidar vote banks in narol nikol and thakkarbapanagar ensured the party won even in 2017 when the congress bagged 77 seats by riding the wave of patidar anger there were other caste agitations too at the time but the bjp won 12 seats in ahmedabadthe congress won danilimda jamalpurkhadia dariapur and bapunagar the last three fall on the rath yatra routethis election bapunagar isset for a battle of two states the congresss sitting mla himmatsinh patel is a confidant of rajasthan cm ashok gehlot the bjps contender is dinesh kushwaha whose son is married to the daughter of dinesh pratap singh a cabinet minister in yogi adityanaths uttar pradesh governmentbapunagar has 29 candidates the highest on any ahmedabad seat ten muslims and 13 dalits fighting as independents are expected to eat into the vote shares of the major parties the aimim which is contesting on three seats in ahmedabad had fielded shahnawaz khan pathan in bapunagar for this election but pathan defected to the congress bapunagar is a crowded field a factor that will suck away some minority votes from the congress said a local activist kalim siddiquijamalpurkhadia is primed for a triangular fight involving the bjp the congress and the aimima chhipa community leader imran khedawala of the congress had won this seat in the last election by a margin of 29339 votes defeating bhushan bhatt of the bjp bhatt is the son of former speaker and senior minister the late ashok bhattaimim gujarat chief sabir kabliwalas entry into jamalpurkhadia has complicated the circumstances for khedawala as both hail from the chhipa community in 2012 kabliwala then a congress rebel fought as an independent in this constituency and garnered 30513 votes that helped bhatt win by 6000 votes in the hindu stronghold of khadia the fight between two muslim leaders is viewed as being advantageous to bhatt said yusuf mansuri a resident of the areain dariapur the citys tallest muslim leader gyasuddin shaikh is pitted against the bjps kaushik jain a former councillor the bjps threeinarow victory run by exminister bharat barot on dariapur was