The BJP has fielded OBC (Thakor) leader Alpesh Thakor from the Gandhinagar South constituency in the forthcoming Gujarat Assembly elections. Thakor has been keenly involved in several agitations for the rights of the Thakor community. In the 2017 Assembly polls, Thakor won the Radhanpur constituency as a Congress candidate by defeating BJP's Lavingji Muljiji Thakor Solanki. He defected to the BJP in 2019 and contested bypoll from Radhanpur. However, he lost by over 3,500 votes against Congress party candidate Raghubhai Desai. He is taking on Congress candidate Dr Himanshu Patel and AAP's Dolatbhai Pravinchandra Patel this time.