For next 36 hours, party candidates and Independents will be aggressively campaigning door to door as well as through social media…reports Asian Lite News
As campaign ended for phase 1 of Gujarat Assembly elections on Tuesday evening, now polling will take place on 89 assembly seats on December 1 from 8 a.m to 6 p.m.
Out of 89 seats, triangular contest is likely between AAP, BJP and Congress candidates on 83 seats.
Chief Electoral Officer P. Bharathi in a statement said, “Some 2,39,76,670 voters will exercise their rights to vote their representatives, total 788 candidates are in fray from 39 political parties and independent candidates. They will cast their votes in 25,430 polling booths, of which 16,416 are in rural areas, and 9,014 in urban areas.”
Total 1,06,963 election staff will be discharging duties, of which 79,985 are polling staff, and 27,978 are presiding officers.
For next 36 hours, party candidates and Independents will be aggressively campaigning door to door as well as through social media.
BJP, Congress leaders booked
Gujarat police booked a BJP and a Congress leader for different reasons on Tuesday, the last day of campaigning for the first of the two-phase polls on December 1 and 5.
While BJP leader Manoj Patel was booked for hurting religious sentiments, a case against Congress’s Rajul Desai was registered for violating model code of conduct.
BJP leader Patel was booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code for deliberate and malicious act to outrage religious feelings and voluntarily interfering with the free exercise of any electoral rights, and for committing offence in any religious place.
In his complaint with the division police station, Assistant election officer Sandip Patel alleged that BJP’s Patan candidate Rajul Desai was granted permission to address public meetings in the Saliwado ward of the town. While addressing the gathering, party leader Manoj Patel had delivered a speech that could create enmity between two communities. A video clip of the speech is also circulated on social media.
The speech is also in violation of the Model Code of Conduct. The case is investigated by Police Inspector A.S. Vasava.
In the case of Congress candidate and sitting MLA Kirit Patel lodged with division police station, D.D. Parmar, election officer has stated that according to the Model Code of Conduct election campaign is to be wind up at 10 p.m., yet on November 25, Congress candidate Kirit Patel campaigned near Gulshannagar society till 11.10 p.m. it is violation of the public order also. Patel is booked for the violation of public order.
