Voting will be held today (December 5, 2022) across 93 Assembly seats in 14 districts of Gujarat during the second phase of the state polls. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who arrived in his home state on Sunday evening, is scheduled to exercise his franchise in Ahmedabad. PM Modi will cast his vote at a polling station set up at a high school in Ranip locality in Ahmedabad city.
“Urging all those who are voting in Phase 2 of the Gujarat elections, particularly the young voters and women voters to vote in large numbers. I will be casting my vote in Ahmedabad at around 9 AM,” he said in a tweet.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will also cast his vote at a municipal sub-zonal office in the Naranpura locality of the city.
It is notable that PM Modi is a registered voter from the Ranip area and had cast his vote in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and previous polls. The polling station falls under the Sabarmati Assembly constituency in Ahmedabad city.
The counting of votes for all 182 constituencies in Gujarat will be taken up on December 8.