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Kejriwal, who held a roadshow to celebrate the win, said: “If we are 27, they are 93 (the BJP won the remaining 93 seats). Numbers don’t matter. Every man in our party is enough for 10 rivals. People of Surat have given you the role of opposition. Don’t let them (rivals) do anything wrong. The public can tolerate everything but they cannot take not insult or arrogance. We must never humiliate anyone who comes to us.”
The BJP hit back, with state chief CR Patil saying that a large number of other AAP candidates lost election deposits. This was the first time the AAP, which fielded 470 candidates, had contested civic polls in Gujarat.
The Gujarat election will also be keenly watched for the performance of Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM, which contested candidates in minority dominated seats of Modasa and Bharuch municipalities. The party also fielded candidates in the Godhra municipality. The AIMIM won seven of the 21 seats it contested in Ahmedabad.
The polling took place on Sunday with municipalities recording a voter turnout of 58.82 per cent, while the figure was 65.80 for the district panchayats and 66.60 per cent for taluka panchayats.
The final figures were released by the State Election Commission on Monday. Re-polling was held during the day in a booth in Ghodiya in Jhalod taluka of Dahod district after two EVMs were damaged during Sunday’s polling by three people.
The booth recorded around 50 per cent turnout during the re-poll, officials said. Police on Monday said 17 people were arrested in Vadodara for allegedly taking custody of EVMs after polling late Sunday evening in Tarsva in Waghodia taluka.
The mob had claimed the EVMs were tampered and police had to fire a round in the air and lob four teargas shells to bring the situation under control, said a Waghodia police station official. Polls were held for 8,235 out of 8,474 seats as candidates were elected unopposed on 237 seats and no forms were submitted in two, SEC officials said.
For the 8,235 seats, the BJP fielded 8,161 candidates, Congress 7,778, Aam Aadmi Party 2,090, among others, said the SEC.
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