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ECI Announces Gujarat Elections Dates, Voting To Be Held In Two Phases

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Gandhinagar: Election Commission of India announces Gujarat Assembly Polls dates. Voting will be held in two phases on December 1 and 5. The counting of votes will be done on December 8.

A press conference of ECI was held on November 3. Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said, โ€œFirst phase of Assembly elections in Gujarat to be held on 1st December & second phase on 5th December; counting of votes to be done on 8th December.

Speaking of first-time voters he said that as many as 3,24,422 people would be first-time voters in the state.
โ€œI am happy to inform you that 3,24,422 new voters will vote for the first time this time in the Gujarat Assembly elections. The total number of polling stations is 51,782. At least 50 percent of the polling stations set up in the state will have webcasting arrangements,โ€ Kumar said.

โ€œFor a better voting experience, 1274 polling stations will be managed entirely by women and security staff. Public Works Department will welcome voters at 182 polling stations. For the first time, 33 polling stations will be set up and managed by the youngest polling staff,โ€ he added.

Hereโ€™s the Gujarat Assembly Election Schedule:

Date of issue of gazette notification: November 5 (Phase 1), November 10 (Phase 2)

Last date for nominations: November 14 (Phase 1), November 17 (Phase 2)

Date for scrutiny of nominations: November 15 (Phase 1); November 18 (Phase 2)

Last date for withdrawal of candidature: November 15 (Phase 1), November 18 (Phase 2)

Date of polls: December 1 (Phase 1), December 5 (Phase 2)

Date of counting: December 8 (Both phases)

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โ€œCongress Party Is In โ€˜Self-Destructionโ€™ Mode, Has No Futureโ€,Says BJP Leader Kuldeep Bishnoi

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Kuldeep Bishnoi who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in August this year after being expelled from Congress, on Thursday said his former party is in โ€œself-destruction modeโ€ and has no future.

Hisar:  Kuldeep Bishnoi who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in August this year after being expelled from Congress, on Thursday said his former party is in โ€œself-destruction modeโ€ and has no future.

Bishnoi, who reached the polling booth to cast his vote in the ongoing Adampur Assembly constituency bypoll in Haryana, took a jibe at Rahul Gandhi and said that the former Congress president could commit political suicide, by continuing in Congress, but not he. Speaking to ANI, Bishnoi said, โ€œCongress is in self-destruction mode. It would remain in the number two spot, but BJP would win the bypoll.โ€

Kuldeep Bishnoiโ€™s son Bhawya Bishnoi is in the fray in the bypoll in the Adampur constituency.
โ€œIf Rahul Gandhi wants to do political suicide, he can, I cannot do that by being in Congress. Congress has no political future. Rahul Gandhi is conducting the padyatra (Bharat Jodo Yatra) to save his own reputation,โ€ Kuldeep Bishnoi said.

Hitting out at the former chief minister of Haryana Bhupinder Singh Hooda, the BJP leader said that Hooda talks about Dalits, but he is anti-Dalit.

โ€œEverybody knows what happened with Dalit leaders Kumari Selja and Ashok Tanwar. I wanted to be the Congress chief in Haryana, if I were made so, the results for Congress would be good,โ€ he said.

Retorting to Bishnoiโ€™s allegations, Congress candidate in the Adampur Assembly constituency bypoll, Jaiprakash JP said that the party made a Dalit the state president.

โ€œHaryana has nearly 22 per cent Dalits. BJP leaders cannot go to their doorsteps to seek votes. Congress has made a Dalit as the Haryana party chief,โ€ he said. AAP has fielded its candidate Satyendra Singh in the bypoll.

Taking on AAP supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Bishnoi said that the party would not be able to make routes as it is โ€œindulged in corruptionโ€.

โ€œKejriwal comes to Haryana and talks about corruption, schools and pollution. Whereas the pollution is at its peak in Delhi. AAP is indulged in corruption, so they would not be able to win here,โ€ he said.

Wife of Kuldeep Bishnoi, Renuka Bishnoi said that AAP is not in the race. โ€œAAP is not in the race. Our political fight is against Congress,โ€ she said.

The voting for Assembly by-elections in seven vacant seats spread across the states of Maharashtra, Haryana, Bihar, Telangana, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh began on Thursday morning.

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Polling is being held from 7 am to 6 pm amid tight security and the counting of votes will be conducted on November 6.

Bharatiya Janata Party is in a fierce contest with regional parties such as the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the Samajwadi Party (SP), and the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in the Assembly bypolls in seven constituencies spread across six states.

The seven Assembly constituencies where the elections are taking place are 166-Andheri East from Maharashtra, 47-Adampur from Haryana, 93-Munugode from Telangana, 139-Gola Gokranath from Uttar Pradesh and 46-Dhamnagar from Odisha.

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