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Gujarat election 2017: How educated are different parties' candidates?

The Congress party has fielded 13 post-graduates among its 176 candidates, while most of BJP and AAP candidates are educated

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BS Web Team
The Gujarat Assembly election 2017 has taken off, with the first phase of polling for 89 of the 182 seats taking place on December 9 and the second for 93 seats slated for December 14.

A total of 1,815 candidates are in the fray for this year's Gujarat polls in the two phases.  

Among the candidates fielded by the different parties for the Gujarat state election, no Bharatiya janata Paty (BJP) or the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate is labelled illiterate, shows an analysis by the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR).

Similarly, among the most educated