Satyajitsinh Duleepsinh Gaekwad is a Congress leader who has been pitted by the party against BJP's Ashvinbhai Natvarbhai Patel and AAP's Gautambhai Sampatbhai Solanki Rajput in the upcoming Gujarat Assembly polls from the Vaghodia constituency. He represented the Vadodara constituency in the 11th Lok Sabha from 1996 to 1998. He defeated BJP candidate Jitendra Ratilal Sukhadia by just 17 votes. He won with one of the thinnest margins in the history of Lok Sabha elections and contested three Lok Sabha elections in 1998, 2004, and 2009. He, however, lost all three times and was never considered for a ticket by the party. In the upcoming Gujarat Vidhan Sabha elections, he is again running on the Congress ticket.