Junagadh polling peaceful barring two incidents, results on Tuesday

Junagadh, 20 July 2014

As expected, polling for the Junagadh Municipal Corporation today witnessed some violence.

Local unit of Congress party claimed that their one candidate from ward number 14 was injured following attack by BJP workers.

On the other hand the local unit of BJP complained that their three workers from ward number 8 were injured following a clash with rival Congress party.

Barring these two incidents, the polling remained peaceful.

According to the state election commission the final figure of turnout was 54%. The state election commission added that polling was peaceful. It further said that counting will begin from 8.00 am onwards on 24th and results are likely to arrive by around noon.

Both BJP and Congress claimed victory after voting was over. BJP’s Vijay Rupani said, Junagadh was the only one municipal corporation ruled by Congress in Gujarat, but after the results on Tuesday, BJP will be declared winner here and all municipal corporations of Gujarat will become Congress-free. He said Congress party is not fighting Junagadh election to win, but just to show its existence.

Results of today’s election will be out on 24 July.