Maninagar | |
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Constituency No. 53 for the Gujarat Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | Western India |
State | Gujarat |
District | Ahmedabad |
LS constituency | Ahmedabad West |
Established | 1975 |
Total electors | 277,187[1] |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
15th Gujarat Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent | |
Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Elected year | 2022 |
Maninagar is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India.[2][3] It is part of Ahmedabad district and is one of the 7 assembly constituencies which make up Ahmedabad West Lok Sabha seat.
Previously, Narendra Modi who was also the Chief Minister of Gujarat had represented this constituency as a Member of the Legislative Assembly till 21 May 2014, when he resigned to assume the position of Prime Minister of India. In the 2012 Gujarat legislative assembly elections, Modi won from this constituency with a majority of 86,373 votes over Sanjiv Bhatt's wife, Shweta, who was contesting for the Indian National Congress.[4]