Gandhinagar: Polling for as many as 323 local self-government bodies will be held in Gujarat on November 22 and 29, the State Election Commission announced on Friday.
This follows a rap on the poll panel’s knuckles by the Gujarat High Court, which had described as unconstitutional the move to put off the electoral process. The first phase of polling will be held for six of eight city municipal corporations on November 22. The votes will be counted on November 26, State Election Commissioner Varesh Sinha told here. The elections will be held for the municipal corporations of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Jamnagar and Bhavnagar, all of which are controlled by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), reports IANS.
Two newly-formed municipal corporations of Gandhinagar and Junagadh are also with the BJP. While there are over six months left for the elected board of Gandhinagar to expire, Junagadh still has four years before its term expires.
