Gujarat Elections 2024 Live Phase 3: Voting commenced Tuesday morning for 25 out of 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat, alongside bypolls in five state assembly constituencies, with polling booths numbering 50,788 opening at 7 am.
Gujarat Elections 2024: Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena appealed to voters in Gujarat s Ahmedabad to participate in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, emphasizing that voting is a duty, not a holiday. He highlighted the importance of voting to ensure a strong government and urged people to vote in large numbers. Meanwhile, Saxena recently recommended an NIA probe against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly receiving political funding from banned terrorist organization "Sikhs for Justice." The third phase of polling for 93 Lok Sabha seats across 12 states and union territories, including Gujarat, took place on Tuesday.
An analysis by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), a nonprofit organisation, has shown that 11 political parties collected a total of ₹2,078 crore in donations during Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat assembly elections last year while the total expenditure incurred was ₹288 crore.