Elections 2022 highlights: Campaigning ends for second phase of Gujarat Assembly polls

Campaigning concluded on Saturday evening for the December 5 bypolls to six assembly constituencies in five states and the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, where Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav's family is locked in a high-voltage contest with the BJP to hold on to its pocket borough.

All the markets will be closed in the national capital on Sunday, in view of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections, ANI reported.

West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee will hold a meeting with the TMC party MPs in the national capital on December 7 while her trip to Delhi to attained G20 summit pre-meeting scheduled to be held on December 5.

Sixty-eight model polling stations and an equal number of pink polling stations have been designated in New Delhi in view of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections scheduled on Sunday, ANI reported.

After a relatively low turnout in the first phase of the Gujarat assembly election, the Election Commission of India on Saturday urged the voters of the state to come out in large numbers during the second phase on December 5 to compensate for the voting in the earlier phase.

The high-voltage campaigning for the second and final phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections ended at 5 pm on Saturday. As many as 833 candidates are in the fray across 93 constituencies which will go to polls on December 5.

We are fighting for 13 seats in Vidhan Sabha and our focus is on winning those seats and not bothered about what’s happening in other areas. People gave a very positive response during the campaigning so we hope to win those seats: Asaduddin Owaisi, AIMIM chief told news agency ANI. 

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BJP calls all its 68 candidates in Himachal Pradesh for a meeting on December 5, three days before counting of votes, reports Live Hindustan.

On final day of campaigning, BJP MP Manoj Tiwari campaigns for the party's MCD candidates Preeti Gupta and Ram Raj Tiwari.

BJP-ruled MCD has, in fifteen years, turned the country's capital into a ‘pile of garbage’ and the  ‘capital of stray animals,’ says senior AAP leader and Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia. 

Exit polls for Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh assembly elections will be aired by news channels on December 5 after the end of second and final phase of polling in Gujarat. Counting of votes for both states is scheduled for December 8.

According to the Election Commission's rules, the last day of campaigning for any election is 2 days before the polling. The second and final phase in Gujarat is on Monday.

Congress winning ‘at least’ 55 of the total 89 seats that polled in the first phase in Gujarat, claims party spokesperson Pawan Khera.

All schools run by the government of Delhi are closed today, in preparation for the MCD election. Also, on the voting day, the Delhi Metro services will commence at 4am, instead of the regular 5am.

Voting for all 272 wards of the revamped municipal corporation in Delhi will take place on Sunday. The polling will begin at 8am, and conclude at 5:30pm.