Bharatiya Janata Party is currently leading on 152 seats in the latest trends as the counting of votes is progressing, thus clearly indicating that the party is simultaneously breaking its own record of 127 seats and also shattering the highest previous electoral record of 147 achieved by the Madhav Singh Solanki Congress government in 1985.
As the trends emerged on the 144 seats in the counting of votes for the Gujarat Assembly polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party is leading on 112 seats while Congress is placed in the second spot with its lead on 21 seats.
To motivate and inspire young voters, for the first time, 33 polling centres will be managed by young polling parties during the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections, said Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Thursday.
As the voting for the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections began, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday called upon all the voters to come out in large numbers to exercise their franchise, especially the first-time voters.
As Gujarat is all set to vote for the first phase of the assembly elections, Jambur, India's mini-African village will vote in its own tribal booth for the first time.
There has been a race among the political parties including Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress and Aasm Aadmi Party for making poll promises as the fate of the political parties will be decided by over 2 crore voters today with 89 constituencies spread across 19 districts of Kutch, Saurashtra and South Gujarat going up for polling.
From power-packed rallies and roadshows by top leaders of the ruling BJP and other political parties to freebies promises and allegations and counter-allegations on each other, the high-octane campaigning for the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections ended on Tuesday.
Gujarat's former Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader on Tuesday forecasted the party's win in State Assembly elections by saying that BJP will form the government with more than two-thirds majority.