Before the Gujarat elections, Another MLA resigned, may join BJP

Before the Gujarat elections, Congress has suffered a third setback in 2 days. Another MLA has resigned from the party. Congress MLA from Jhalod Bhavesh Katara has resigned from the party. There is talk of him joining BJP. Earlier Congress MLAs Mohan Singh Rathwa and Bhagwan Brar have resigned from the party.

Meanwhile, in the meeting of the BJP's Central Election Committee, which lasted till late last night, about a hundred names have been approved. Candidates have been decided on all 89 seats of the first round. BJP's first list of Gujarat will come in a while.

The elections to the 182-seat assembly will be held in two phases. Voting will be held on December 1 under the first phase and on December 5 in the second phase. At the same time, the results will be announced on December 8 along with the results of Himachal Pradesh assembly elections.

Gujarat currently has a total of 4.90 crore voters, out of which 2.53 crore are male, 2.37 crore female and 1,417 third gender voters. There are 3.24 lakh new voters. A total of 51,782 polling stations have been set up for voting, there will be 182 model polling stations. Live broadcast of 50 percent polling stations will be done. There will be youth polling teams at 33 polling booths.

The term of the Gujarat Assembly ends on February 18 next year. There are total 182 seats in Gujarat and the majority figure is 92. Out of 182 assembly constituencies, 13 are reserved for Scheduled Caste candidates, and 27 assembly seats are reserved for Scheduled Tribe candidates.