For Congress’s Sonal Patel, facing Amit Shah in Gandhinagar is ‘challenge, not political suicide’

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Ahmedabad: No cameras, no posters and a quiet typical of summer afternoons in the cities of Gujarat, the entryway leading to her residence in one of the lanes of Ahmedabads CG Road is nothing like one would expect of a candidate fighting Lok Sabha elections, especially not if the fight is against Union Home Minister Amit Shah...

Its checkmate even before the game begins, many from the constituency say, but Sonal Patel, the Congresss candidate for Gandhinagar, insists it is not a political suicide, but rather a challenge...

An architect who joined the Congress in 1992, 62-year-old Patel is in a huddle with four of her trusted aides, preparing for her public meeting in the evening..

She is in a direct battle against Shah, who won from the same seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections his first time contesting the general elections by over five lakh votes, and is now targeting a victory with a record margin of 10 lakh..

Sonal Patel was president of the Gujarat Mahila Congress Committee for six years between 2012 and 2018, and is now the AICC secretary and Congress party co-incharge for Mumbai and western Maharashtra..

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