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⦁ BJP President Amit Shah wins Gujarat's Gandhinagar seat.
⦁ BJP President Amit Shah is leading against the Congress candidate Chavda Chatursinh Javanji in Gandhinagar seat, one of the 26 Lok Sabha constituencies in Gujarat, according to the early trends.
⦁ In Ahmedabad (West), BJPs Kirit Solanki is leading by 25,453 votes over Congress candidate Raju Parmar.
⦁ In Ahmedabad (East), BJPs Hasmukh Patel is ahead by 7,675 votes over Congress nominee Gitabhen Patel.
⦁ In Bhavnagar, BJP's Bhartiben Siyal is ahead by over 53,000 votes against Congress candidate Manharbhai Patel.
⦁ In Rajkot seat, BJP's Mohan Kundariya is leading by over 75,000 votes against Congress Lalit Kagathara.
Gujarat: As per the latest update, Amit Shah has won from Gandhinagar seat in Gujrat. Shah was in a direct fight with Congress' CJ Chavda.
Chavda, who is the ex-president of Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee, is a two-time MLA representing Gandhinagar North seat.
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Gujarat: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother Heeraben Modi greets the media outside her residence in Gandhinagar. pic.twitter.com/yR2Zi9eeL1
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">Gujarat: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother Heeraben Modi greets the media outside her residence in Gandhinagar. pic.twitter.com/yR2Zi9eeL1
— ANI (@ANI) May 23, 2019Gujarat: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother Heeraben Modi greets the media outside her residence in Gandhinagar. pic.twitter.com/yR2Zi9eeL1
— ANI (@ANI) May 23, 2019
Knowing the news of her son leading, Heeraben Modi, PM Modi's mother, greeted the media outside her residence in Gandhinagar.
As per the election officials, over 8,000 polling staff has been deployed at the counting centres, also the declaration of results may get delayed by around three to four hours due to the counting of voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) slips.
VVPAT slips of five randomly selected Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) will be counted in every Assembly segment after EVM votes are counted, state's Chief Electoral Officer S Murali Krishna said.
Each of the 26 Lok Sabha seats has six to seven Assembly segments. If the slips and EVM data do not match, count of VVPAT slips will be taken into consideration, Krishna said.
"Due to this exercise, declaration of final results may get delayed by around three to four hours trends will be out by the afternoon", added Krishna.
Polling was held in a single phase on April 23, recording a turnout of 64.11 per cent, the highest in the state since 1976 when there was around 63.77 voting.
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani expressed confidence that the BJP will retain all the 26 seats in the state. "There is a Modi 'wave', people of the state are enthusiastic to make Modi prime minister again. The results are certain," Rupani told reporters in Gandhinagar.
However, Gujarat Congress chief Amit Chavda claimed his party will win at least 10 Lok Sabha seats in the state. "The results of Gujarat will surprise all," he said. In the 2017 state Assembly polls to 182 seats, the Congress won 77 seats while the BJP bagged 99 and retained power with a slender majority. The main contenders from the BJP in the Lok Sabha poll this time are party chief Amit Shah (from Gandhinagar seat) and Union minister Jaswantsinh Bhabhor (Dahod).
The Congress fielded former Union minister Bharat Singh Solanki from Anand seat and its leader of opposition in the Assembly Paresh Dhanani from Amreli seat.
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