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Alpesh Thakor, who emerged as an OBC leader during the Patel quota agitation and won the Radhanpur seat in the 2017 polls on Congress' ticket, later quit after differences with the state party leadership.

The Congress and its allieshad fallen on hardtimes in the run-up to the October 21 elections, with many of their leaders switching to the more powerful BJP in search of greener pastures. However, on counting day, two of their most high-profile defectors -- Alpesh Thakor and Udayanraje Bhosale -- didn't exactly see their political move translate into votes.

By Election Results Gujarat: The Congress and the BJP are neck and neck in bypolls to six Assembly seats in Gujarat, with the ruling BJP winning the Kheralu seat and leading in Amraiwadi and Lunawada and the opposition registering wins in Tharad, Bayad and Radhanpur constituencies

The BJP has fielded former Congress MLA Alpesh Thakor as a candidate for the upcoming Gujarat bypolls. He will contest from Radhanpur, a seat he had won in 2017 on a Congress ticket.

OBC leader Alpesh Thakore, the Congress legislator from Radhanpur in north Gujarat, on Monday denied rumours that he was preparing to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Jignesh Mevani and Alpesh Thakor, two key hopes for the Congress in Gujarat, have both won their seats.

The Aam Aadmi Party-BJP battle seems set to escalate after a series of confrontations in the past two days over Arvind Kejriwal's tour of Narendra Modi's Gujarat.

Arvind Kejriwal used his brief detention at a police station in Gujarat to allege payback for his four-day road show in the state. Mr Kejriwal, a former tax inspector, has said he will audit the development of Narendra Modi's homestead.

Angry workers of Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party faced water cannons from the police when they protested at the BJP's headquarters in Delhi this evening.

Arvind Kejriwal emerged from a police station in Radhanpur, north Gujarat, to confirm that he had been stopped briefly on his tour of the state by senior cops, who questioned him on whether he has permission to hold his road show.