The Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded the daughter of a 2002 post-Godhra Naroda Patiya massacre case convict from Naroda seat of Ahmedabad for the upcoming Assembly elections.

Payal Kukrani, 30, is daughter of Manoj Kukrani, who is one of the 16 convicts in the Naroda Patiya riots case in which 97 Muslims were killed. An anaesthetist by profession, she is also among the youngest candidates fielded by the ruling party this time. The Gujarat High Court had in 2018 upheld the conviction of Manoj Kukrani and 15 others in the riot case. Kukrani, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, is currently out on bail.