44 nominations for LS polls on day 4 in Gujarat, 5 for assembly by-polls including one for Talala where SC has ordered ECI to put election on hold

April 01, 2019

Gandhinagar: On the fourth day of nomination for all 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat,a total of 44 candidates filed their papers while a total of 5 nominations including one on Talala seat (where the Supreme Court today ordered to not to conduct by poll) were done on as many assembly by polls.

Among the prominent candidates filing papers for LS polls were Vinod Chavda of BJP from Kutch (SC) seat, Dipsinh Rathod (BJP) on Sabarkantha, Kirit Solanki (BJP) on Ahmedabad-West (SC) seat, former BJP leader Reshma Patel as independent from Porbandar seat, Bhartiben Shiyal (BJP) from Bhavnagar seat, Devusinh Chauhan (BJP) from Kheda, Ratansinh Rathod (BJP) from Panchmahal and CR Patil (BJP) from Navsari seat.

Among the five nominations for assembly bypolls one each were from the five including Talala and all of them were independents.

The last date for filing of nominations is April 4, while scrutiny of nominations will be held on April 5.

The last date for withdrawal of candidature is April 8.

Voting will be held on April 23 while counting of votes will be done on May 23.

Apart from 26 loksabha seats by poll on five seats Unjha, Jamnagar Rural, Dhrangadhra, Manavadar (due to resignation of Congress MLAs) and Talala (due to disqualification of Congress MLA Bhagwan Barad owing to conviction in a case but now the SC has ordered to put the by poll on Talala seat on hold) would also be held on the same day and nomination for these seats would also be done as per the same schedule.

Around 4.47 crore voters of whom 2.14 crore were female ,can exercise their franchise on 51851 polling station across the 26 constituencies.

The number of polling booths have increased by 6458 in comparison to the last general election in 2014.

All the 26 seats were won by BJP in the last election.