Sixty eight per cent polling was recorded in the first phase of Gujarat polls, senior deputy election commissioner Unmesh Sinha said on Saturday. Eighty nine seats out of the total of 182 Assembly constituencies went to polls in the first phase with prominent candidates like Chief Minister Vijay Rupani (Rajkot West), Congress' Shaktisinh Gohil (Mandvi) and Paresh Dhanani (Amreli) in the fray. Allegations of EVM tampering also surfaced at Porbandar, Surat, Jetpur and Navsari and the Election Commission has ordered a probe. Meanwhile, the action shifted to campaigning for Phase two. PM Narendra Modi attacked the Congress for a tweet by one Salman Nizami, who he claimed was an aide of Rahul Gandhi. The Congress, meanwhile, denied knowing him.
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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has termed the Congress party's Gujarat poll manifesto as 'constitutionally and financially impossible' and said the promises like quota to Patidar and farm loan waiver can never be fulfilled. On the day Gujarat went in for the first phase of polling, Jaitley said, "Having no model of development, the Congress party's manifesto is one of fiscal impossibility. The total revenue earned by the state is about Rs 90,000 crore per annum. The Congress promises a tax waiver of Rs 20,000 crore."
Zero voting was recorded at Gajadi village in Morbi district of Gujarat on Saturday as the locals, fed up with water shortage, boycotted polling. While long lines were seen outside polling booths in Saurashtra and South Gujarat in the first phase of Assembly polls, none among the 1,000 registered voters in Gajadi turned up to cast vote, officials said.
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Election commission says 68% voter turnout has been recorded in the first phase of Gujarat election till now, but the final figures may go a little higher and touch last assembly election’s tally. A total turnout of 71.32 per cent was recorded in the last election to the 182-member Assembly.
Average voting in the 19 districts till 5pm
MORBI 75%
VALSAD: 70%
NARMDA: 75%
DAWRKA: 55%
PORBANDAR: 62%
TAPI: 70 %
BOTAD: 73%
NAVSARI: 76%
AMRELI: 65%
KAUTCH: 66.32%
SURENDRANAGAR: 65%
DANG: 72%
BHARUCH: 64%
JAMNAGAR: 65%
JUNAGADH: 58%
RAJKOT: 62%
SURAT: 70%
BHAVNAGAR: 65%
KUTCH: 66.32%
Over 70 percent voting was registered in Gujarat at close of polling at 5pm in the first phase, though there were still long queues lined up to vote at most polling stations, Chief Electoral Officer BB Swain said on Saturday.
First phase of polling has ended, we are extremely grateful to EC, the officials & voters for peaceful & successful completion of voting. I'm sure, as per the reports that are coming, that BJP is going to register a landslide victory: Arun Jaitley
Modi government takes from the poor, gives to a handful of the rich: Rahul in Vadnagar.
Rahul Gandhi attacks the BJP for not releasing a manifesto for Gujarat. “We have been working on our manifesto for the last three months. We went to all sections of society and asked people what they want their government to do. We don’t talk about ourselves. We talk about what they did in the last 22 years and what Congress will do in next five years,” Rahul says in Vadnagar. Taking the fight directly to Modi, he says the Prime Minister has stopped talking about development and corruption. “He tries to distract the people. But whenever he tries doing that, we bring him back to the issues,” Rahul adds.
Addressing a rally in Mehsana's Vadnagar, Rahul Gandhi says that 90 per cent of Narendra Modi’s speeches have been about Modi himself. “90% samay unhone apne aap pe bhashan dia, Narendra Modi ne Narendra Modi ke baare mein bhashan dia, aur kuch bacha hi nahi! But this election is not about Modi Ji or me, it is about Gujarat's future,” he says.
The highest voting percentage has been recorded in Navsari district at 67.56 per cent, closely followed by Morbi at 67.37 per cent. Namada district has also recorded a voting percentage of more than 65 per cent. Here is the full list of voter turnout in the 19 districts:
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