This time in Gujarat elections, special arrangements have been made to take 80 to 100 year old voters to the polling booth. Interested elderly voters will be brought to the polling station and will also be sent back home after voting.
In Gujarat Assembly Elections 2022, voting is going on in 89 seats for the first phase. For voting,, huge enthusiasm is being seen among young to old voters.
100-year-old Kamuben Lalabhai Patel cast her vote at a polling booth in Umargam in Valsad district. At the same time, 104-year-old Gangaben, a resident of Sachin of Choryasi assembly, is one of the oldest voters in her assembly, who exercised her franchise today.
This time special arrangements have been made to take 80 to 100 year old voters to the polling booth in Gujarat elections. Interested elderly voters will be brought to the polling station and will also be sent back home after voting. If someone cannot come to the polling station, then the election officer will go to his house and provide him the facility to vote. For this a form has to be filled. Videography of the form filling process will be done.
4.92% voting has happened in the first one hour of polling. The least turnout took place in Surat’s Katargam seat.
AAP state president Gopal Italia is in the fray from here. There are 788 candidates in the fray for these seats falling in 19 districts of the state. In the first phase, more than two crore voters will use their vote. The seats on which special attention will be given today are Jamnagar, Morbi, Kutch, Rajkot, Porbandar and Junagadh.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has tweeted for the first phase of Gujarat assembly elections, “Today is the first phase of Gujarat elections. I would like to request all those who voted today, especially the first-time voters, to exercise their franchise in record numbers.” I invite you to use
