NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, OCT 1
Campaigning for the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation (GMC) polls ended on Friday evening, with Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel holding a road show for the ruling BJP which passed through the state capital.
ગાંધીનગર છે મક્કમ,
ભાજપ સાથે અડીખમગાંધીનગર ખાતે યોજાયેલ ભવ્ય રોડ શોની પુર્ણાહુતિ પ્રસંગે પ્રદેશ અધ્યક્ષ શ્રી @CRPaatil તથા અન્ય હોદ્દેદારો દ્વારા સરદાર વલ્લભભાઈ પટેલની પ્રતિમાને માલ્યાર્પણ કરાઈ. pic.twitter.com/BZARXVHVll
— BJP Gujarat (@BJP4Gujarat) October 1, 2021
Voting for 44 seats in 11 wards, which were to be held in April but were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will be held between 7 am and 6 pm on October 3, while results will be declared on October 5.
There are 2.8 lakh registered voters in Gandhinagar, while the number of wards, each of which have four seats, has increased from eight in 2016, when the Congress and BJP won 16 seats each, to 11 now due to delimitation and addition of more areas, officials said.
"We, alone, can't change the country. We should do it together".
Gandhinagar it's your turn, bring change#GandhinagarWithAAP pic.twitter.com/sB3MXWgMKE
— AAP Gujarat (@AAPGujarat) October 1, 2021
This time, it is going to be a three-cornered contest with the Aam Aadmi Party claiming that people are seeing it as an alternative to the BJP and Congress.
While AAP’s Manish Sisodia held a road show on September 29, the Congress has been organising smaller meets and engaging in door-to-door campaigning.
On Friday, the BJP held a 20-kilometre road show from Pethapur to Kudasan with Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel and state unit chief CR Paatil taking part.
Polls will also be held on October 3 in Okha and Thara municipalities, while Bhanvad municipality will see mid-term elections, apart from bypolls to fill up 104 vacant seats in local bodies.
