2 min readAhmedabadApr 29, 2026 03:32 AM IST
Two of the four seats in Jamnagar that the BJP couldn’t manage to wrest were won by men who are jailed in connection with the Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime or GujCTOC cases booked against them. In the 16-ward municipal corporation, the Bharatiya Janata Party won 60 out of 64 seats.
From Ward no.12, the highest 14,018 votes went to Aslam Kareem Khilji of the Aam Aadmi Party. Khilji and Altaf Gaffar Khafi of the Indian National Congress (12,033 votes) are rival gang leaders in the city who were both booked for organised crime earlier this month. Both are currently in judicial custody, with Khilji lodged at the Morbi jail and Khafi at the Amreli jail.
Speaking about Khilji and Khafi, police officials told The Indian Express: “These two are gang leaders. There are multiple cases against their gang members, including murder, attempt to murder, use of illegal firearms, extortion, as well as land grabbing and encroachments. Earlier this year, these gangs procured illegal weapons and fired on each other, leading to a gang war situation in Jamnagar. They were both booked under the GujCTOC Act based on several FIRs against their gang members.”
Eighteen of Khilji’s gang members and 11 of Khafi’s gang members are named as accused in the cases. There are more than 50 cases against both gangs, confirmed DySP Jayvirsinh Zhala of Jamnagar Police.
Both are incumbent corporators of the Jamnagar Municipal Corporation and have retained their seats from Ward no.12.
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Farm leader Raju Karpada, who left the AAP and joined the BJP earlier this year, has won the Muli-2 seat of Surendranagar District Panchayat.
Karpada, as the president of Kisan Sangathan of the AAP, spent more than 100 days in jail after violence broke out at his Kisan Mahapanchayat rally in Botad in October 2025. He resigned from the AAP over differences with the party leadership and joined the BJP shortly after.
