Campaigning for final phase of Gujarat polls ends, voting on Thursday

Campaigning for the second and final phase of Gujarat Assembly elections on Thursday ended on Tuesday evening after one of the most vicious round of attacks, with the stakes high both for the ruling BJP and an aggressive Congress.

After the first round of voting on December 9 for 89 seats, the remaining 93 constituencies spread across 14 rpt 14 districts of northern and central Gujarat will see balloting to pick a new state Assembly.

A total of 851 candidates are in the fray, with the BJP determined to continue its 22-year-long rule and the Congress equally confident of coming to power. Over two crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise.

From Tuesday evening, political parties confined themselves to door-to-door campaigning.

The districts which will see polling on Thursday include Banaskantha, Patan, Sabarkantha, Mehsana, Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Aravalli, Mahisagar, Panchmahal, Dahod, Kheda, Anand, Vadodara and Chhota Udepur.

The maximum number of 33 candidates are in Mehsana seat. This includes Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel. There are only two candidates in Jhalod.
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