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GUJARAT ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS 2022

PM Modi leads campaign as BJP

aims historic win against Congress and AAP

The state, which has 182 assembly constituencies will go for polling in two phases on December 1 and 5.

The counting of votes will occur on December 8, which coincides with Himachal Pradesh’s result date

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Ahmedabad
rime Minister Narendra Modi
will head to poll-bound Gu-
Pjarat this weekend and is ex-
pected to participate in at least eight
programmes crisscrossing the state
from Saurashtra to Surat. The high-
light of PM Modi’s tour is his visit to
the famous Somnath Temple on No-
vember 20. The Prime Minister is also
the chairman of the Somnath Temple
Trust. On November 19 evening after
landing in Gujarat the Prime Minister
will address a rally in Valsad.
On November 20, after visiting
the Somnath Temple, he is scheduled
to address four rallies in the Saurashtra
region. Venues have been finalized at
Veraval, Dhorarji, Amreli and Botad.
Incidentally, in the last assembly
elections, the BJP was not able to win
a single seat in these assembly con-
stituencies in Saurashtra. The BJP Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel greet the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters during a road-
won the state polls but wasn’t able to show ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections in Ahmedabad on Wednesday (ANI)
breach this bastion that has tradition-
ally voted for Congress. Shah and CR Patil is aiming to fetch was different from all other states ers had started demanding money. The
On Day 3, PM Modi will hold
three rallies in Surendranagar, Bha- more than 140 seats. The state has since its formation. In 1960, when the AAP candidate refuted allegations
of being kidnapped by the Bharatiya
been a BJP stronghold for long and
state was formed, during those de-
ruch and Navsari. Janata Party (BJP). Jariwala further
While Bharuch was the constitu- the party confident of coming back cades (the 1960s-1970s), many proj-
ency of the former Congress tall man and forming the government for the ects of industrial development came said that he was not capable enough
to spend Rs 80 lakh to Rs 1 crore.
Ahmed Patel in the past, the BJP seventh term. to the fore. Rajkot became a place “Reason for withdrawing my
state president CR Patil who hails The state of Gujarat which has that is known for its automobile parts. nomination was that (AAP) workers
from Navsari has been winning this 182 assembly constituencies will go for Now the story that is woven around in Surat (East) Assembly started re-
Lok Sabha seat with huge margins. polling in two phases on December 1 the development in Gujarat is that all signing. The workers started demand-
Incidentally, Congress Lok Sabha and 5. The counting of votes will oc- development has been done by Na-
MP Rahul Gandhi is also expected cur on December 8, which coincides rendra Modi and ‘Gujarat is Modi’ ing money. I’m not capable enough to
spend Rs 80 lakh to Rs 1 crore,” Jari-
to visit Navsari on November 21, the with Himachal Pradesh’s result date. is the biggest proof of a person’s ar- wala said.
same day that PM Modi is expected Meanwhile, Congress leader rogance.” Hitting out at the central “There was a lot of pressure from
to be in Navsari. Digvijaya Singh on Thursday said that government over the demonetization the party. People were harassing me
Modi, who hails from Gujarat, is though Gujarat has been developing policy that was implemented in 2016,
also expected to have a closed-door for many years, the BJP has created a Singh said that the decision by the by calling again and again. I went
away with my son’s friends. There
meeting with the state leaders during story that all development in Gujarat government failed as no black money was no one from BJP. What I have to
his stay here to further boost the party has taken place during Narendra Mo- was brought back to the country, nor do now, I will tell after five to seven
in the western state. In Gujarat, the di’s rule and to claim that Gujarat is did it make any difference in terror days,” he added.
BJP party has been in power for the Modi shows a person’s arrogance. activities as was promised. However, the AAP had levelled
last 27 years with Narendra Modi be- While addressing the media here In another development, Aam allegations against the ruling BJP
ing the longest-serving chief minister at Congress headquarters in Ahmed- Aadmi Party candidate from Guja- for the forcible withdrawal of papers
of the state. abad, Singh said, “People of Gujarat rat’s Surat East, Kanchan Jariwala, on of his party’s Surat East candidate in
This time the party under the are known for business and enterpris- Wednesday said that he withdrew his
leadership of Narendra Modi, Amit es. The per capita income of the state nominations because the party work- Gujarat after kidnapping him.

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